VLC bootstrap failure

[cruvis]

Following the instructions at http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32CompileMSYS, I get the following error:

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Administrator@SCOTT-HOME4 ~/vlc-1.0.5
$ PATH=/usr/win32/bin:$PATH ./bootstrap
++ dirname ./bootstrap
+ cd .
+ ACLOCAL_ARGS='-I m4 '
+ test -d extras/contrib/bin
++ uname -s
+ test .MINGW32_NT-5.1 = .Darwin
+ pkg-config --version
+ PKGCONFIG=yes
+ export AUTOPOINT
+ test ''
+ AUTOPOINT=autopoint
+ autopoint --dry-run --force
+ set +x
generating modules/**/Makefile.am
................................................................................

+ echo
+ echo
+ cp -f INSTALL INSTALL.git
+ autoreconf --install --force --verbose -I m4
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: running: autopoint --force
Copying file ABOUT-NLS
Copying file m4/codeset.m4
Copying file m4/gettext.m4
Copying file m4/glibc2.m4
Copying file m4/glibc21.m4
Copying file m4/iconv.m4
Copying file m4/intdiv0.m4
Copying file m4/intl.m4
Copying file m4/intldir.m4
Copying file m4/intlmacosx.m4
Copying file m4/intmax.m4
Copying file m4/inttypes-pri.m4
Copying file m4/inttypes_h.m4
Copying file m4/lcmessage.m4
Copying file m4/lib-ld.m4
Copying file m4/lib-link.m4
Copying file m4/lib-prefix.m4
Copying file m4/lock.m4
Copying file m4/longlong.m4
Copying file m4/nls.m4
Copying file m4/po.m4
Copying file m4/printf-posix.m4
Copying file m4/progtest.m4
Copying file m4/size_max.m4
Copying file m4/stdint_h.m4
Copying file m4/uintmax_t.m4
Copying file m4/visibility.m4
Copying file m4/wchar_t.m4
Copying file m4/wint_t.m4
Copying file m4/xsize.m4
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4
m4/autoopts.m4:22: warning: underquoted definition of AG_PATH_AUTOOPTS
m4/autoopts.m4:22: run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
m4/autoopts.m4:22: or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Ext
ending-aclocal
/bin/m4: expecting line feed in frozen file
autom4te: /bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
C:\msys\1.0\bin\aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 1
autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1

Administrator@SCOTT-HOME4 ~/vlc-1.0.5
$[/messages]

Can anyone help?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

automake --version?

[cruvis]

$ automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.11
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
and Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>.

Administrator@SCOTT-HOME4 ~/vlc-1.0.5
$

[kostya29]

I had the same problem,but it was solved.

Read following quote from http://wiki.videolan.org/Win32CompileMSYS

For those wishing to have a Notepad look-and-feel I recommend notepad2, which may tempt you to ditch Notepad altogether. You can set File - Line endings - Default to "Unix (LF)", but it always saves opened files in the ending style they have.

C:\MSys\1.0\home\<username>\vlc\configure.ac
C:\msys\1.0\home\<username>\vlc\extras\package\win32\configure-msys.sh
C:\msys\1.0\home\<username>\vlc\extras\package\win32\configure-common.sh

These files must be saved in unix format. After it bootstrap have been done successfully.

[gany47]

Hi all,

I am facing the same issue with bootstrap.

$ PATH=/win32/bin:$PATH ./bootstrap
++ dirname ./bootstrap
+ cd .
+ ACLOCAL_ARGS='-I m4 '
+ test -d extras/contrib/build/bin
++ uname -s
+ test .MINGW32_NT-5.1 = .Darwin
+ pkg-config --version
+ PKGCONFIG=no
+ export AUTOPOINT
+ test ''
+ AUTOPOINT=autopoint
+ autopoint --dry-run --force
+ AUTOPOINT=true
+ echo
+ set +x
generating modules/**/Makefile.am
...........................................................................
+ echo
+ echo
+ cp -f INSTALL INSTALL.git
+ autoreconf --install --force --verbose -I m4
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: running: true --force
autoreconf: running: aclocal -I m4 --force -I m4
/usr/share/aclocal/autoopts.m4:22: warning: underquoted definition of AG_PATH_AU
TOOPTS
/usr/share/aclocal/autoopts.m4:22: run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
/usr/share/aclocal/autoopts.m4:22: or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/a
utomake.html#Extending-aclocal
m4/po.m4:40: warning: macro `AM_PATH_PROG_WITH_TEST' not found in library
m4/po.m4:65: warning: macro `AM_PATH_PROG_WITH_TEST' not found in library
m4/po.m4:82: warning: macro `AM_PATH_PROG_WITH_TEST' not found in library
m4/gettext.m4:170: warning: macro `AM_ICONV_LINK' not found in library
configure.ac:446: warning: macro `AM_ICONV' not found in library
C:\msys\1.0\local\bin\m4.exe:C:/msys/1.0/share/autoconf/autoconf/autoconf.m4f:20
77: expecting line feed in frozen file
autom4te-2.67: m4 failed with exit status: 1
C:\msys\1.0\bin\aclocal: /usr/bin/autom4te-2.67 failed with exit status: 1
autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1

automake version
$ automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.11
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
and Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@gnu.org>.

autoconf version
$ autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.67
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>, <http://gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.

I used notepad2 to make sure the below files have unix line feed.

C:\msys\1.0\share\autoconf\autoconf\autoconf.m4f
C:\MSys\1.0\home\<username>\vlc\configure.ac
C:\msys\1.0\home\<username>\vlc\extras\package\win32\configure-msys.sh
C:\msys\1.0\home\<username>\vlc\extras\package\win32\configure-common.sh

Please help me get past this error, so I can proceed with the 'make'.

Thanks,
Ganesh

[VLC_help]

I used notepad2 to make sure the below files have unix line feed.

It seems that it isn't like that.
C:\msys\1.0\local\bin\m4.exe:C:/msys/1.0/share/autoconf/autoconf/autoconf.m4f:20
77: expecting line feed in frozen file

[gany47]

Ok.. ya.. it may not be.. so can you please let me know if I am missing anything here. .. I am stuck in this for couple of days now.. Need to get past this and proceed with the make. Please help ..

Thanks,
Ganesh

[VLC_help]

If you need to edit your files, install nano/pico and edit them via shell. That way encodings shouldn't change.

[sokrat3s]

Hello,
bootstrap command fails for me also, getting that message (through MSYS):

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$ ./bootstrap ++ dirname ./bootstrap + cd . + ACLOCAL_ARGS='-I m4 ' + test -d extras/contrib/build/bin ++ uname -s + test .MINGW32_NT-6.1 = .Darwin + pkg-config --version + PKGCONFIG=no + export AUTOPOINT + test '' + AUTOPOINT=autopoint + autopoint --dry-run --force + AUTOPOINT=true + echo + set +x generating modules/**/Makefile.am ..................................................................... + echo + echo + cp -f INSTALL INSTALL.git + autoreconf --install --force --verbose -I m4 /mingw/bin/autoreconf: /mingw/bin/autoreconf-2.67: /bin/perl: bad interpreter: N o such file or directory /mingw/bin/autoreconf: line 157: /mingw/bin/autoreconf-2.67: error 0

Any ideas?
Thanks

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

perl misinstalled.

[sokrat3s]

Thanks. I tried to reinstall it, using ActivePerl but the problem insists. Should I build from source? Which version should I use?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

No, just unzip it correctly from MSys.
Or use my SDK.

[VLC_help]

Or use my SDK.

http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/v ... 79510.html

[sokrat3s]

Thank you a lot. Now, the error is one step further :

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$ ./bootstrap ++ dirname ./bootstrap + cd . + ACLOCAL_ARGS='-I m4 ' + test -d extras/contrib/build/bin ++ uname -s + test .MINGW32_NT-6.1 = .Darwin + pkg-config --version + PKGCONFIG=yes + export AUTOPOINT + test '' + AUTOPOINT=autopoint + autopoint --dry-run --force + AUTOPOINT=true + echo + set +x generating modules/**/Makefile.am ..................................................................... + echo + echo + cp -f INSTALL INSTALL.git + autoreconf --install --force --verbose -I m4 autoreconf: Entering directory `.' autoreconf: running: true --force autoreconf: running: aclocal -I m4 --force -I m4 ' is already registered with AC_CONFIG_FILES. /usr/src/autoconf/autoconf-2.67/lib/autoconf/status.m4:290: AC_CONFIG_FILES is e xpanded from... /usr/share/aclocal-1.11/cond-if.m4:26: AM_COND_IF is expanded from... configure.ac:4293: the top level /bin/m4: cannot remove temporary directory /tmp/ar2436.6036/m4-nXwndV: Directory not empty autom4te-2.67: /bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 c:\VLC_SDK\bin\aclocal: /usr/bin/autom4te-2.67 failed with exit status: 1 autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1

[VLC_help]

Antivirus programs cause errors like that. So disable them while you bootstrap.

[Moriquendi]

Thank you a lot. Now, the error is one step further :

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$ ./bootstrap ++ dirname ./bootstrap + cd . + ACLOCAL_ARGS='-I m4 ' + test -d extras/contrib/build/bin ++ uname -s + test .MINGW32_NT-6.1 = .Darwin + pkg-config --version + PKGCONFIG=yes + export AUTOPOINT + test '' + AUTOPOINT=autopoint + autopoint --dry-run --force + AUTOPOINT=true + echo + set +x generating modules/**/Makefile.am ..................................................................... + echo + echo + cp -f INSTALL INSTALL.git + autoreconf --install --force --verbose -I m4 autoreconf: Entering directory `.' autoreconf: running: true --force autoreconf: running: aclocal -I m4 --force -I m4 ' is already registered with AC_CONFIG_FILES. /usr/src/autoconf/autoconf-2.67/lib/autoconf/status.m4:290: AC_CONFIG_FILES is e xpanded from... /usr/share/aclocal-1.11/cond-if.m4:26: AM_COND_IF is expanded from... configure.ac:4293: the top level /bin/m4: cannot remove temporary directory /tmp/ar2436.6036/m4-nXwndV: Directory not empty autom4te-2.67: /bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 c:\VLC_SDK\bin\aclocal: /usr/bin/autom4te-2.67 failed with exit status: 1 autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1

I had the same problem, and solved it suggested as : dos2unix configure.ac