[tlbuild] first builds for TL 2014

[Alan BRASLAU]

On Sat, 19 Apr 2014 14:12:20 +0200
"Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz at uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> On 04/18/2014 01:14 AM, Karl Berry wrote:
> >      xz needs aclocal/automake 1.14 which I don't have on
> > Debian/wheezy. I leave this for Peter or someone else.
> >
> > xz should not require autoanything, all the dependencies should be
> > up to date.  I'm baffled.
> 
> 
> I'm afraid I'm getting the same error on powerpc-linux (not
> surprising, it's a debian system as well):
> 
> make
> CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && /bin/bash 
> /mnt/shared/tlsources/extra/xz/build-aux/missing autoconf
> /mnt/shared/tlsources/extra/xz/build-aux/missing: line 81: autoconf: 
> command not found
> WARNING: 'autoconf' is missing on your system.
>           You should only need it if you modified 'configure.ac',
>           or m4 files included by it.
>           The 'autoconf' program is part of the GNU Autoconf package:
>           <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/>
>           It also requires GNU m4 and Perl in order to run:
>           <http://www.gnu.org/software/m4/>
>           <http://www.perl.org/>
> make: *** [configure] Error 127
> 
> Thomas
> 

I had to install autoconf (using apt) on both Debian/linux and
Debian/kfreebsd (stable) in order to compile TeXlive.

I also had to install m4 in order to compile the very latest upstream
version of metapost (1.99).

Alan