aclocal not found for mingw sh autogen.sh execution

Question

i'm trying to execute

./autogen.sh 

script in cppunit folder from

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/cppunit

but in a mingw shell(sh) i get next error:

error: aclocal not found

aclocal m4 scripts are in

c:\MinGW\share\

directory.

How to fix that error?

Answer 1

Had a similar problem when compiling a libmodbus library (it uses the same build principle). I have entered the following commands in MSYS shell:

pacman -S msys/libtool

pacman -S msys/autoconf

pacman -S msys/automake-wrapper

After that I was able to execute autogen.sh

Answer 2

it happens on ubuntu as well to overcome to this in ubuntu install automake libtool

apt-get install automake libtool

Answer 3

I've tried to directly run aclocal from shell sh.

And it printed another error message:

Can't locate Automake/Config.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /mingw/...

As in question: Error while building Linphone for windows

So i mounter /mingw by command:

mount c:/mingw /mingw

and script works now.

Answer 4

This did for me:

pacman -S --needed --noconfirm autoconf automake libtool make

Answer 5

Aclocal is part of automake tools, not a standalone package. Install from source to get latest version or use apt

sudo apt-get install automake

OR

VERSION=1.15
    wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-${VERSION}.tar.gz &> /dev/null
    if [ -f "automake-${VERSION}.tar.gz" ]; then
            tar -xzf automake-${VERSION}.tar.gz
            cd automake-${VERSION}/
            ./configure
            make && make install
            echo -e "\e[1;39m[   \e[1;32mOK\e[39m   ] automake-${VERSION} installed\e[0;39m"

        else
            echo -e "\e[1;39m[   \e[31mError\e[39m   ] cannot fetch file from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/ \e[0;39m"
            exit 1
fi

to install from source