[OpenAFS] Unable to build user-space RPMs from source RPM (RHEL3, 1.40)

[Drew Leske]

>>  Can't exec "aclocal": No such file or directory at
>>  /usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/General.pm line 498, <GEN0> line 259.
>
> Um, the error is right here in front of your face.  Can't exec aclocal.
> Perhaps you don't have aclocal installed?

I guess I don't know enough about autoconf and automake.  I thought this was
part of autoconf ('ac'local)--and I have autoconf installed.

Also, I saw somebody else with the same error, and the advice to them was to
use "--target=i686".  Which worked for the kernel modules.

After installing automake and ncurses-devel as well, the following worked
for me:

  # rpmbuild -ba --target=i686 \
    --define "build_modules 1" --define "build_userspace 1" \
    specs/openafs.spec

to build everything in one step.  The userspace stuff is now i686, but I
don't see why that would be a concern.

Thanks for your help,
Drew.

Derek Atkins wrote:
> Quoting Drew Leske <dleske@uvic.ca>:
> 
>>  Can't exec "aclocal": No such file or directory at
>>  /usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/General.pm line 498, <GEN0> line 259.
> 
> Um, the error is right here in front of your face.  Can't exec aclocal.
> Perhaps you don't have aclocal installed?
> 
> [warlord@cliodev build]$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/aclocal
> automake-1.9.2-3
> 
> I find it odd that autoconf doesn't depend on that, as I'm just calling
> autoreconf, but:
> 
> [warlord@cliodev build]$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/autoreconf
> autoconf-2.59-5
> 
> Still -- your problem is a missing aclocal, as per the error you received.
> 
> -derek
> 
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