On 09/02/2015 02:06 AM, John Frankish wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure if this is the correct place to report this, but the configure > scripts produced by autoconf/automake assume "file" is located at > /usr/bin/file and report it missing otherwise.
Running this command in both autoconf.git and automake.git produces no hits: git grep bin/file so I'm failing to see where you are finding a hard-coded invocation. Which package are you trying to compile? Can you provide more details about the exact error message you are seeing? Is it happening during ./configure (likely a bug in your package's configure.ac) or during make (likely a bug in your package's Makefile.am)? > > I have file at /usr/local/bin/file - shouldn't the configure script search > $PATH to find "file"? It's probably something that needs to be fixed in the particular package you are trying to compile, as I can't find where autoconf or automake hardcodes such a use. In fact GNU Coding Standards do not include 'file' in the list of ubiquitous programs, so it is unlikely that autoconf or automake would blindly use it (conditional use, after first probing that it exists on PATH, and with a sane fallback when it does not exist, is okay). -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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