[swift-dev] Autoconf needed for builds?

[Mishal Shah]

Hi Alex,

Libdispatch requires following:

sudo apt-get install autoconf libtool pkg-config clang systemtap-sdt-dev
libbsd-dev

For more detail:
https://github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-libdispatch/blob/master/INSTALL.md#building-and-installing-for-linux

Thanks,
Mishal Shah

Mishal Shah

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Alex Blewitt via swift-dev <
swift-dev at swift.org> wrote:

> I just tried to build Swift on Ubuntu 10.04 and it failed with an error
> message 'autoreconf: command not found'. It seems this comes with the
> autoconf module.
>
> According to https://github.com/apple/swift/#system-requirements the
> requirements for installing includes:
>
> sudo apt-get install git cmake ninja-build clang python uuid-dev
> libicu-dev icu-devtools libbsd-dev libedit-dev libxml2-dev libsqlite3-dev
> swig libpython-dev libncurses5-dev pkg-config libblocksruntime-dev
> libcurl4-openssl-dev
>
> This doesn't include autoconf, and as such, falls over here. Should the
> documentation be updated to require autoconf, or should the libdispatch
> code not require autoconf in the first place?
>
> Alex
>
> ---
>
> libdispatch: using gold linker
> Reconfiguring libdispatch
> + mkdir -p /build/Ninja-ReleaseAssert/libdispatch-linux-x86_64
> + pushd //swift-corelibs-libdispatch
> //swift-corelibs-libdispatch /
> + autoreconf -fvi
> /swift/utils/build-script-impl: line 274: autoreconf: command not found
> swift/utils/build-script: fatal error: command terminated with a non-zero
> exit status 127, aborting
>
>
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