[SSSD] [PATCH] build: call AC_BUILD_AUX_DIR before anything else

Jakub Hrozek jhrozek at redhat.com
Sun Oct 12 15:55:36 UTC 2014


On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 03:36:07PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> sssd's configure.ac (abridged) contains these lines:
> 
> 	AC_INIT([sssd], ...)
> 	m4_ifdef([AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS],
> 		[AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS], [AC_GNU_SOURCE])
> 	AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build])
> 
> When turned into configure, this will be emitted:
> 
> 	ac_aux_dir=
> 	for ac_dir in build "$srcdir"/build; do
> 	  if test -f "$ac_dir/install-sh"; then
> 	    ac_aux_dir=$ac_dir
> 	    ac_install_sh="$ac_aux_dir/install-sh -c"
> 	    break
> 
> However, with automake commit v1.14.1-36-g7bc5927, this will be emitted
> instead:
> 
> 	ac_aux_dir=
> 	for ac_dir in "$srcdir" "$srcdir/.." "$srcdir/../.."; do
> 	  if test -f "$ac_dir/install-sh"; then
> 	    ac_aux_dir=$ac_dir
> 	    ac_install_sh="$ac_aux_dir/install-sh -c"
> 	    break
> 
> As configure no longer looks into build/ for install-sh, running
> ./configure fails:
> 
> 	configure: error: cannot find install-sh, install.sh,
> 	or shtool in "." "./.." "./../.."
> 
> I think the error is that someone placed AC_BUILD_AUX_DIR
> too late. Move it upwards.

Thank you for the patch and for the detailed explanation. I tested the
patch builds fine on F-20 and RHEL-6.

ACK



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