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I followed the installation of GHCJS and when I came to the step "Build the libraries" and I typed the command ghcjs-boot --dev But I get the following lines in my Terminal

(lines omitted)...
generating configure script for ./boot/base
MyDir/.ghcjs/x86_64-darwin-0.1.0-7.8.3/ghcjs/ghcjs-boot/boot/base$ [autoreconf]: <not found> 
fatal: program autoreconf is required but was not found
name searched for (from boot.yaml or command line): autoreconf
searched in PATH:
MyDir/Haskell/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin:MyDir/Haskell/bin

Does anyone know what's wrong here?

Yiyue Wang
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  • You need to install `autoreconf`, I can't help with OS X installation, but I am pretty sure you would be able to find the instructions in the internet. – zudov Apr 17 '15 at 09:52

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Just to make life a bit easier for subsequent users who landed here.

If you have already installed homebrew,

brew install automake will install the autoreconf for you.

Bhoom Suktitipat
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Your system is lacking the auto(re)conf tool which is (unfortunately) not installed with XCode any more. There is an old post explaining how to install auto(re)conf on OS X manually:

Install autoreconf on OSX lion?

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Martin Huschenbett
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