I've been trying a lot of things to get autoreconf to work. I'm running it with --verbose, but not getting any useful hints out of it.
autoreconf: running: aclocal -I m4 -I libopts/m4 -I gnulib/m4 missing file lib/stdio-read.c configure.ac:48: error: expected source file, required through AC_LIBSOURCES, not found m4/gnulib-comp.m4:138: gl_INIT is expanded from... configure.ac:48: the top level with that error, I added the "stdio" module and still got the error: bootstrap: running: gnulib/gnulib-tool --no-changelog --aux-dir=build-aux --m4-base=m4 --libtool --symlink --import base64 close crypto/gc-pbkdf2-sha1 crypto/sha256 ctype fdl gendocs... Module list with included dependencies (indented): absolute-header [....] stdbool stddef stdint stdio <<<<<<================= stdlib stdnoreturn [...] File list: ..... So now I am either failing earlier or later and there are no hints about which it might be. (Previously, it was failing on gl_SC_RANDOM not being defined in some ill-defined place. I think forcing "-I gnulib/m4" into the aclocal command line fixed that.) $ for f in autoconf automake libtool ; do $f --version |head -n 1; done autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69 automake (GNU automake) 1.16.1 libtool (GNU libtool) 2.4.6