M4 v1.4.16 downloaded during build

[Mortimer]

This one seems odd to me. Using Ubuntu 14.04.

Downloaded the prerequisites. Usually a newer version than specified.

* subversion - 1.6.16
* python - Python 2.7.1
* curl - curl 7.21.4 (or wget)
* m4 - GNU M4 1.4.6
* make - GNU Make 3.81
* patch - Patch 2.5.8
* tar - GNU tar 1.26
* wget - GNU Wget 1.13.4 (or curl)

Downloaded trunk from HandBrake site using svn.

During the build this version of M4 gets downloaded even though a newer version is present.

dpkg -s m4
Package: m4
Status: install ok installed
Priority: standard
Section: interpreters
Installed-Size: 334
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: amd64
Multi-Arch: foreign
Version: 1.4.17-2ubuntu1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17), libsigsegv2 (>= 2.9)
Description: a macro processing language
GNU `m4' is an implementation of the traditional UNIX macro
processor. It is mostly SVR4 compatible, although it has some
extensions (for example, handling more than 9 positional parameters to
macros). `m4' also has builtin functions for including files, running
shell commands, doing arithmetic, etc. Autoconf needs GNU `m4' for
generating `configure' scripts, but not for running them.
Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/
Original-Maintainer: Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>

Any ideas?

[JohnAStebbins]

You missed a boat load of additional prerequisites.
From doc/BUILD-Linux:

Code: Select all

The following general tools are used on various platforms and it is
recommended you use these versions or similar:

   * subversion - 1.6.16
   * python - Python 2.7.1
   * curl - curl 7.21.4 (or wget)
   * m4 - GNU M4 1.4.6
   * make - GNU Make 3.81
   * patch - Patch 2.5.8
   * tar - GNU tar 1.26
   * wget - GNU Wget 1.13.4 (or curl)

The GTK UI introduces some significant extra build requirements.  GTK
version 3.10+ is required to build the GTK UI. If you intend to disable
building the GUI with 'configure --disable-gtk' you will not need many
of these packages installed:

Ubuntu 14.04 packages:
   * subversion (cli/gui)
   * cmake (cli/gui)
   * yasm (cli/gui)
   * build-essential (cli/gui)
   * autoconf (cli/gui)
   * libtool (cli/gui)
   * zlib1g-dev (cli/gui)
   * libbz2-dev (cli/gui)
   * libxml2-dev (cli/gui)
   * libogg-dev (cli/gui)
   * libtheora-dev (cli/gui)
   * libvorbis-dev (cli/gui)
   * libsamplerate-dev (cli/gui)
   * libfribidi-dev (cli/gui)
   * libfreetype6-dev (cli/gui)
   * libfontconfig1-dev (cli/gui)
   * libass-dev (cli/gui)
   * libmp3lame-dev (cli/gui)
   * libx264-dev (cli/gui)
   * libjansson-dev (cli/gui)
   * intltool (gui)
   * libglib2.0-dev (gui)
   * libdbus-glib-1-dev (gui)
   * libgtk-3-dev (gui)
   * libgudev-1.0-dev (gui)
   * libwebkitgtk-3.0-dev (gui)
   * libnotify-dev (gui)
   * libgstreamer1.0-dev (gui)
   * libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev (gui)
   * libappindicator-dev (gui)

To install these packages:
     sudo apt-get install subversion cmake yasm build-essential autoconf libtool \
     zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev libogg-dev libtheora-dev libvorbis-dev \
     libsamplerate-dev libxml2-dev libfribidi-dev libfreetype6-dev \
     libfontconfig1-dev libass-dev libmp3lame-dev libx264-dev intltool \
     libglib2.0-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libgtk-3-dev libgudev-1.0-dev \
     libwebkitgtk-3.0-dev libnotify-dev libgstreamer1.0-dev \
     libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev libappindicator-dev

[Deleted User 11865]

IIRC, if any of the set (autoconf, automake, libtool, m4) is missing, then all the set gets built. Might be a case of the build system looking for the libtool executable when it only needs libtoolize?

[JohnAStebbins]

Might be a case of the build system looking for the libtool executable when it only needs libtoolize?

That's only a problem in latest debian and ubuntu 15.04. In the latest debian based distros they have split the original libtool package into 2 parts. libtool which now only contains libtoolize and libtool-bin which contains libtool. Since the HandBrake build system looks for libtool during configure, but uses libtoolize, both of these packages currently need to be installed on these new distros.

[Deleted User 11865]

OK. Then something else is missing that triggers local autotools and thus m4. A build log would help.

[Mortimer]

Thanks!

I installed the list.

Two items. libsampleframerate-dev has been renamed (Ubuntu only?) to libsampleframerate0-dev. I also needed to get libjansson-dev.

I was using doc/Build-MinGW. Oopsie.

Builds clean now. The symptom was a compilation error in the generated stdio.h, from m4 1.4.16, related to gets() not being defined. "error: 'gets' undeclared here (not in a function) _GL_WARN_ON_USE (gets, "gets is a security hole - use fgets instead");"

Thanks again.