autogen.sh doesn't work on OS X

[ilovezfs]

I noticed the 4store URL was no longer active, so was trying to update the Homebrew formula with the release tarball here. However, there is no configure provided and autogen.sh fails:

==> ./autogen.sh
Preparing the 4store build system...please wait

Found GNU Autoconf version 2.69
Found GNU Automake version 1.15
Found GNU Libtool version 2.4.6

Warning: Several files expected of projects that conform to the GNU
coding standards were not found.  The files were automatically added
for you since you do not have a 'foreign' declaration specified.

Considered adding 'foreign' to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE in configure.ac
or to AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS in your top-level Makefile.am file.


Automatically preparing build ... Warning: autoreconf failed
Attempting to run the preparation steps individually

Preparing build ... ERROR: aclocal failed

[ilovezfs]

This is caused by the tagged tarballs not containing neither a .version file nor the .git directory. It would be great if either a .version could be checked into the repository, or separate release tarballs containing .version were made available, preferably with autogen.sh already having been run so we can remove the dependencies on automake, autoconf, and libtool as well. Thanks!

[ilovezfs]

Also is there a reason for autogen.sh not just running autoreconf -fvi?

[swh]

There's no good reason for any of that as far as I know.

Happy to merge a pull request with those changes.

[ilovezfs]

Not sure how a PR can fix the lack of a .version file in the tarball or Autotools not having already been run so that there would be a distributed configure, Makefile, etc. in the tarball too. But yes, a PR could replace autogen.sh with one that just runs autoreconf -fvi.

[ilovezfs]

Typically projects have separate source archive and release tarballs listed on this page: https://github.com/garlik/4store/releases and the release tarballs have had Autotools already run and other such distribution tweaks like the .version thing.

[swh]

OK... I don't think I've ever seen that page before, looks like it's built automatically from the repo? How do we control what tarball gets built?

[swh]

Ah, nevermind, just seen the draft a new release link.

OK, I'll add it to the todo list.

[chenrui333]

@swh 👋 I am still seeing autogen issue with macos build

Warning: Several files expected of projects that conform to the GNU
coding standards were not found.  The files were automatically added
for you since you do not have a 'foreign' declaration specified.

Considered adding 'foreign' to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE in configure.ac
or to AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS in your top-level Makefile.am file.


Automatically preparing build ... Warning: autoreconf failed
Attempting to run the preparation steps individually

Preparing build ... ERROR: aclocal failed

relates to Homebrew/homebrew-core#171366

[swh]

That's interesting - I got a build to succeed on OSX (14.4.1) with home-brew libraries, but it failed to execute.

[swh]

Head adds foreign to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE, see if that helps.