oniguruma

[kiwina]

Build from release tar ball fails
./configure --with-oniguruma=builtin --disable-maintainer-mode make
=== configuring in modules/oniguruma (/root/jq-1.6/modules/oniguruma) configure: WARNING: no configuration information is in modules/oniguruma root@ubuntu:~/jq-1.6# make GEN src/builtin.inc GEN src/version.h make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory '/root/jq-1.6' Making all in modules/oniguruma make[2]: Entering directory '/root/jq-1.6/modules/oniguruma' make[2]: *** No rule to make target 'all'. Stop. make[2]: Leaving directory '/root/jq-1.6/modules/oniguruma' Makefile:1085: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/jq-1.6' Makefile:762: recipe for target 'all' failed make: *** [all] Error 2

[kiwina]

just need to run
autoreconf -fi

[nicowilliams]

Eh, this trips me up often tool. Maybe configure.ac should emit a message about it when you ask for the built-in and that fails.

[meta-github]

Actually, the point about --disable-maintainer-mode is that one does not need the autotools. So, if the solution is to run autoreconf, then --disable-maintainer-mode has to be confidered broken, which is a pity.

In my opinion, maintainer mode should be disabled by default in distribution source packages and the package should build fine without the autotools being installed.

[wtlangford]

Yes, the requirement for running autoreconf -fi was an error made when I packaged the release source packages for 1.6. It won't happen with future releases.

[meta-github]

@wtlangford : thanks for your comment. I just have built 1.6 after installing autotools. It is good to hear that autotools will not be needed for future releases.