{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jcupitt/libvips/issues/279","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jcupitt/libvips/issues/279/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jcupitt/libvips/issues/279/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jcupitt/libvips/issues/279/events","html_url":"https://github.com/jcupitt/libvips/issues/279","id":69908651,"number":279,"title":"autotools version compatibility when building from GIT","user":{"login":"RomanHargrave","id":6024227,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6024227?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/RomanHargrave","html_url":"https://github.com/RomanHargrave","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/RomanHargrave/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/RomanHargrave/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/RomanHargrave/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/RomanHargrave/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/RomanHargrave/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/RomanHargrave/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/RomanHargrave/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/RomanHargrave/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/RomanHargrave/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jcupitt/libvips/labels/question","name":"question","color":"02e10c"}],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":4,"created_at":"2015-04-21T17:41:42Z","updated_at":"2015-04-29T15:32:46Z","closed_at":"2015-04-29T10:14:14Z","body":"Similar to #273.\r\n\r\nIt looks like this project was set up using an older revision autools. Trying bootstrap it results in the following output:\r\n\r\n```\r\nautoconf: configure.in: No such file or directory\r\n/usr/bin/m4: cannot open `configure.in': No such file or directory\r\nconfigure.ac:123: installing './config.guess'\r\nconfigure.ac:123: installing './config.sub'\r\nconfigure.ac:13: installing './install-sh'\r\nconfigure.ac:330: error: required file './ltmain.sh' not found\r\nconfigure.ac:13: installing './missing'\r\ncplusplus/Makefile.am: installing './depcomp'\r\n```\r\n\r\nI'm running autoconf version 2.13, aclocal 1.14.1, and have tried using versions 2.50 and 2.64 of autoconf.\r\n\r\nAlthough a `configure` script *is* generated, there are missing files. One such missing file is `Makefile.in`, which is required in order for `configure` to work."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jcupitt/libvips/issues/comments/97471997","html_url":"https://github.com/jcupitt/libvips/issues/279#issuecomment-97471997","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jcupitt/libvips/issues/279","id":97471997,"user":{"login":"RomanHargrave","id":6024227,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6024227?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/RomanHargrave","html_url":"https://github.com/RomanHargrave","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/RomanHargrave/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/RomanHargrave/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/RomanHargrave/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/RomanHargrave/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/RomanHargrave/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/RomanHargrave/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/RomanHargrave/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/RomanHargrave/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/RomanHargrave/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-04-29T15:32:46Z","updated_at":"2015-04-29T15:32:46Z","body":"I did not, even with the requisite version. I ended up using a tarball with a preexisting configuration script. "}}