Re: new package build error: archiver requires 'AM_PROG_AR' in 'configure.ac'

2016-09-01 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 01.09.2016 um 13:44 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > The beauty of autotools is that users do not need to install them: > tarballs contain everything one needs to configure, build, and install > the thing. I did not know. I thought it's always a good idea to run autoconf. Removing the

Re: new package build error: archiver requires 'AM_PROG_AR' in 'configure.ac'

2016-09-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Hartmut, Hartmut Goebel skribis: > I try to build the asn1c package, see below. But this fails with the > following error message. > > /gnu/store/…-automake-1.15/share/automake-1.15/am/ltlibrary.am: > warning: 'libasn1compiler.la': linking libtool libraries using

Re: new package build error: archiver requires 'AM_PROG_AR' in 'configure.ac'

2016-09-01 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 31.08.2016 um 21:56 schrieb David Craven: >> I have never seen this before. Have you tried patching “configure.ac” >> as it says, adding “AM_PROG_AR” somewhere? > You could also try adding gettext and pkg-config to native-inputs. > Some autotools errors magically disappear sometimes... This

Re: new package build error: archiver requires 'AM_PROG_AR' in 'configure.ac'

2016-09-01 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 31.08.2016 um 21:49 schrieb Ricardo Wurmus: > I have never seen this before. Have you tried patching “configure.ac” > as it says, adding “AM_PROG_AR” somewhere? For now I worked around this issue by adding this line near the top of the confiure.ac: m4_ifdef([AM_PROG_AR], [AM_PROG_AR]) This

Re: new package build error: archiver requires 'AM_PROG_AR' in 'configure.ac'

2016-08-31 Thread David Craven
> I have never seen this before. Have you tried patching “configure.ac” > as it says, adding “AM_PROG_AR” somewhere? You could also try adding gettext and pkg-config to native-inputs. Some autotools errors magically disappear sometimes...

Re: new package build error: archiver requires 'AM_PROG_AR' in 'configure.ac'

2016-08-31 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hartmut Goebel writes: > I try to build the asn1c package, see below. But this fails with the > following error message. > > /gnu/store/…-automake-1.15/share/automake-1.15/am/ltlibrary.am: > warning: 'libasn1compiler.la': linking libtool libraries using a non-POSIX >

new package build error: archiver requires 'AM_PROG_AR' in 'configure.ac'

2016-08-30 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Hi, I try to build the asn1c package, see below. But this fails with the following error message. /gnu/store/…-automake-1.15/share/automake-1.15/am/ltlibrary.am: warning: 'libasn1compiler.la': linking libtool libraries using a non-POSIX archiver requires 'AM_PROG_AR' in 'configure.ac' Is this a