As always, many thanks for your help, Bruno.

On Thu, 5 Nov 2026 at 23:18, Bruno Haible <[email protected]> wrote:

> Reuben Thomas wrote:
> > libgnu/Makefile.gnulib:58: error: required file 'lib/alloca.c' not found
>
> > This is Enchant, the spelling library front end that I've had a lot of
> help
> > with before:
> >
> > https://github.com/rrthomas/enchant.git
>
> The error message comes from 'automake'. Debugging automake,


What technique did you use for this? Maybe next time I can get there myself…


> I see that the
> error is caused by line 74 in your configure.ac:
>
> AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR([lib])
>
Remove that line, and you should be fine.


Isn't this needed? Indeed, removing it seems to work…but changing it
to AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR([libgnu]) should also work (seems to).

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