autogen fails on Mac 10.12
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When attempting to install Ga (for my Molpro distribution), I execute the following:
git clone https://github.com/GlobalArrays/ga.git
cd ga
./autogen.sh
then failure:
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4
main::scan_file() called too early to check prototype at /Users/kipeters/Molpro/src/ga/autotools/bin/aclocal line 643.
aclocal: couldn't open directory '/Users/kipeters/Molpro/src/ga/autotools/share/aclocal': No such file or directory
somewhat above this:
libtool found and is exactly needed version (2.4.6)
sorry about the formatting, didn't know the pound signs would do that....
Is this related to #88 ? I just pushed a fix for it in the develop branch. Could you try it and see if it was related?
nope, but what did work was to delete my previously installed libtool (even though it was the correct version) and let the ga installer download and build one itself.
Thank you for this report, as well as the work-around. I have attempted to add osx 10.12 to the travis build of the develop branch to catch errors like this and #88 . I don't expect us to overhaul the build system. It is a bit fragile only in that it is known to work only with specific autotool versions, so we might just force the building of all of them for developers regardless of the versions matching.
The latter sounds like a very good (very safe) path forward.
@kipeters I edited your issue with (what I consider to be) better markup. Click on the edit button to see what changes were made if you are interested in formatting tricks.
Thanks Jeff!
For the upcoming 5.6.4 release we have forced the install-autotools.sh script to install all autotools regardless of any versions found locally. This should fix this issue.