autoconf, textinfo dependencies Debian/Ubuntu

[guest271314]

autoconf for autoreconf, textinfo for makeinfo dependencies Debian/Ubuntu

[saghul]

Do you have suggested / recommended packages disables? I think those should be dependencies of build-essential.

[guest271314]

This list was generated on Sun 03 Jan 2021 11:30:56 AM CET for amd64
It contains a list of essential packages (which are also build-essential).

From /usr/share/build-essential/essential-packages-list

base-files
base-passwd
bash
bsdutils
coreutils
dash
debianutils
diffutils
dpkg
findutils
grep
gzip
hostname
init-system-helpers
libc-bin
login
ncurses-base
ncurses-bin
perl-base
sed
sysvinit-utils
tar
util-linux

[guest271314]

apt cache show does not list autoconf (autoreconf is called during the build) or texinfo as "Build-Essential: yes". I suggest testing OS, update, install build-essential then run make without the autoconf and makeinfo or texinfo installed to check if errors are thrown.

[saghul]

Thanks for looking into it. I'll give it a try, thanks!

[guest271314]

autoconf, texinfo, libtool are not in build-essential on Debian 12.

[saghul]

Ops this feel the ought the cracks sorry!

This is only necessary when using the bundled libffi, right?

[guest271314]

I think so. If you omit installing them, then install one by one you'll get an error for each - no libtool, error, no autoconf no autoreconf, error, no texinfo, errror.

Ubuntu right now is whole 'nother ball of wax. I used to be able to install buil-essential and cmal and gcc on Xubuntu live USB. Build tks at least dozens of time. After around 2 months ago, following this commit guest271314/telnet-client@18a332f everytime I tried to install build-essential or cmake or gcc the machine crashed. I think it has something to do with Ubuntu trying to move more to snap, but I'm not sure. So I went back to Debian.

When you find the time I would fetch Ubuntu's latest LTS and Debian's latest releast and test what I describe above for your own independent verification.

These dependencies are not automatically included in the distribution and at least for me something changed in Ubunto world over he past couple months which made it essentially impossible to build txiki.js on a live USB.

[guest271314]

On Debian 12 - without installing autoconf for autoreconf, texinfo for makeinfo, not the errors before exit

$ make
...
[ 62%] Linking C static library libqjs.a
gmake[3]: Leaving directory '/home/user/bin/txiki.js/build'
[ 62%] Built target qjs
gmake[2]: Leaving directory '/home/user/bin/txiki.js/build'
gmake[1]: *** [Makefile:136: all] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory '/home/user/bin/txiki.js/build'
make: *** [Makefile:10: build] Error 2

After installing autoconf and texinfo we still get errors because of libtool dependency

$ make
...
configure.ac:41: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
configure:8529: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LD
autoreconf: error: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
gmake[3]: *** [CMakeFiles/libffi.dir/build.make:92: libffi-prefix/src/libffi-stamp/libffi-configure] Error 1
gmake[3]: Leaving directory '/home/user/bin/txiki.js/build'
gmake[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:254: CMakeFiles/libffi.dir/all] Error 2
gmake[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
[ 62%] Linking C static library libsqlite3.a
gmake[3]: Leaving directory '/home/user/bin/txiki.js/build'
[ 62%] Built target sqlite3
gmake[2]: Leaving directory '/home/user/bin/txiki.js/build'
gmake[1]: *** [Makefile:136: all] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory '/home/user/bin/txiki.js/build'
make: *** [Makefile:10: build] Error 2

After installing libtool tjs gets built successfully, no errors. So libtool needs to be added to the list, too, given the suggested installation in the README

$ make
...
[ 98%] Building C object CMakeFiles/tjs.dir/src/posix-socket.c.o
[100%] Linking C executable tjs
gmake[3]: Leaving directory '/home/user/bin/txiki.js/build'
[100%] Built target tjs
gmake[2]: Leaving directory '/home/user/bin/txiki.js/build'
gmake[1]: Leaving directory '/home/user/bin/txiki.js/build'

[saghul]

Thanks for the details! Can you update the PR! I'll merge it then.

[saghul]

Thank you!