configuration error from source code

[icegood]

While configuring from source in a ubuntu20-based docker environment, i obtained:

1. pkg-config is missing as dependency in documentation
2. even thought 'apt install check
   Reading package lists... Done
   Building dependency tree
   Reading state information... Done
   check is already the newest version (0.10.0-3build2).
   0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 24 not upgraded.'

i obtained from configure:

checking for CHECK... no
configure: error: Check not found

it is good idea to migrate to cmake...

[icegood]

under debian:bullseye
configuration goes i bit further:

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... mawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether make supports nested variables... yes checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes checking whether make supports the include directive... yes (GNU style) checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking for gcc option to accept ISO C99... none needed checking for gcc option to accept ISO Standard C... (cached) none needed checking for flex... flex checking lex output file root... lex.yy checking lex library... -lfl checking whether yytext is a pointer... yes checking for bison... bison -y checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes checking for check >= 0.11.0... yes checking for library containing cfg_init... -lconfuse checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking for size_t... yes checking for working alloca.h... yes checking for alloca... yes checking for inttypes.h... (cached) yes checking libintl.h usability... yes checking libintl.h presence... yes checking for libintl.h... yes checking malloc.h usability... yes checking malloc.h presence... yes checking for malloc.h... yes checking stddef.h usability... yes checking stddef.h presence... yes checking for stddef.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes checking for string.h... (cached) yes checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes checking stdbool.h usability... yes checking stdbool.h presence... yes checking for stdbool.h... yes checking for int16_t... yes checking for int32_t... yes checking for int8_t... yes checking for size_t... (cached) yes checking for uint16_t... yes checking for uint32_t... yes checking for uint8_t... yes checking for memset... yes checking for strdup... yes checking for help2man... no ./configure: line 5590: syntax error near unexpected token drd,'
./configure: line 5590: AX_VALGRIND_DFLT(drd, off)'
seems the same as in
tpm2-software/tpm2-abrmd#404

[dburgener]

The Ubuntu error is because the distro is shipping an older version of check. You can add the --without-check flag to ./configure and it will skip the dependency and you won't be able to run unit tests.

The second issue looks like a missing autoconf-archive dependency. See the "installing from git" section in the README.