[TS-4773] AM_EXTRA_RECURSIVE_TARGETS not available in CentOS automake

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 7.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 7.0.0
• Component/s: Build
• Assignee: James Peach
• Reporter: Steven Feltner
• Created: 23/Aug/16 03:56
• Updated: 07/Nov/16 23:26
• Resolved: 23/Aug/16 03:58

Description

Trying to build master branch on CentOS 6.7 - while doing

autoreconf -if

I received the error configure.ac:52: warning: macro `AM_EXTRA_RECURSIVE_TARGETS' not found in library

The AM_EXTRA_RECURSIVE_TARGETS macro was introduced into automake 1.13. CentOS only has version 1.11 through normal channels. There is not a newer version available in either devtoolset-3 or devtoolset-4. A newer version can be downloaded and compiled, but that is not a standard package.

@jpeach suggested:

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 7e4adf6..5878756 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wall -Werror -Wno-portability tar-ustar foreign no-installinf
 AM_MAINTAINER_MODE([enable])
 
 # Enable a recursive "tidy" rule for clang-tidy.
-AM_EXTRA_RECURSIVE_TARGETS([tidy])
+m4_ifdef([AM_EXTRA_RECURSIVE_TARGETS], [AM_EXTRA_RECURSIVE_TARGETS([tidy]])
 
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([lib/ink_autoconf.h])
 
 

as a temporary workaround. This change allowed autoreconf and configure to complete successfully.