Autoconf needed for builds?

Alex_Blewitt · November 15, 2016, 4:31pm

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 GitHub - apple/swift: The Swift Programming Language 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

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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

mishal_shah · November 15, 2016, 8:48pm

Hi Alex,

Libdispatch requires following:

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

For more detail:

github.com

apple/swift-corelibs-libdispatch/blob/main/INSTALL.md#building-and-installing-for-linux

## Grand Central Dispatch (GCD)

GCD is a concurrent programming framework first shipped with Mac OS X Snow
Leopard.  This package is an open source bundling of libdispatch, the core
user space library implementing GCD.  At the time of writing, support for
the BSD kqueue API, and specifically extensions introduced in Mac OS X Snow
Leopard and FreeBSD 9-CURRENT, are required to use libdispatch.  Linux is
supported, but requires specific packages to be installed (see Linux
section at the end of the file). Other systems are currently unsupported.

### Configuring and installing libdispatch (general comments)

GCD is built using autoconf, automake, and libtool, and has a number of
compile-time configuration options that should be reviewed before starting.
An uncustomized install of the C-API to libdispatch requires:

	sh autogen.sh
	./configure
	make
	make install

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Thanks,
Mishal Shah

Mishal Shah

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On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Alex Blewitt via swift-dev < swift-dev@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 GitHub - apple/swift: The Swift Programming Language 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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Alex_Blewitt · November 16, 2016, 10:26am

Thanks, created [SR-3222] Packages listed in top-level README are not sufficient to build Swift on Linux · Issue #45810 · apple/swift · GitHub to address the documentation since it's necessary to build dispatch if building foundation on Linux

Alex

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On 15 Nov 2016, at 20:48, Mishal Shah <shahmishal@gmail.com> wrote:

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@swift.org <mailto:swift-dev@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 GitHub - apple/swift: The Swift Programming Language 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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