Error: Unable to find the `ax_check_icu.m4' file

[bitbud]

On new Ubuntu 10.04, 12.04 and Fedora 18 systems, rake fails with:

Unable to find the `ax_check_icu.m4' file.
git checkout HEAD src/couchdb/priv/couch_js/utf8.h
Have you installed GNU Autoconf Archive?

On each system:

• autoconf-archive is installed
• file in error exists at: /usr/share/aclocal/ax_check_icu.m4

I haven't used build-couchdb in about a year, and previously have had no issues.

[Guit]

Same here ! Did you fix it?

[Guit]

The problem is since the last comit, i come back to the 7873b76 and everything is ok

[NodePing]

Pulling 7873b76 didn't work for me. Still getting that error when I try to rake. Any other advice?

[irbull]

Reverting for 7873b76 worked for me. Keep in mind that there are submodules, so you need to update these too once you revert.

[jhs]

Would you please try on the latest master branch? It incorporates changes used for building CouchDB 1.3.0. I believe these are fixed since it has many autotools changes.

Thanks.

[clehner]

I had this problem on my Mac and found that it was because bootstrap was finding the wrong aclocal binary, and therefore the wrong aclocal path. It was finding /usr/bin/aclocal-10 instead of /usr/local/bin/aclocal (1.13). I added aclocal-1.13 aclocal-1.12 before aclocal-1.11 on the ACLOCAL=find_program…line (87) inbootstrap. Then running bootstrapgave me some errors butautomake --add-missing; autoreconf` worked.

[janl]

still seeing this on master and the v.1.3.0 branch

[jhs]

@janl the 1.3.0 branch is old now. I merged it into master.

Jan, which platform are you using to build? Are you sure that you have updated the Git submodules? This project now bundles autoconf-archive, so there should be dependencies/autoconf-archive/m4/ax_check_icu.m4

Failing that, please start a fresh build and then send me your rake.log file so I can investigate further. Thanks.

[jhs]

@janl also, if it fails, please send me your OS-installed packages, either dpkg -l or brew list or whatever.

[janl]

turns out I suck at git. I withdraw my report.