[HarfBuzz] (noob?) Building HB

[suzuki toshiya]

Hi,

Could you post the version of "autoreconf" command?

Regards,
mpsuzuki

Shriramana Sharma wrote:
> Sorry for this query which is probably highly "noob"-y, but I 
> encountered a problem in building HB (for the first time).
> 
> Pravin Satpute advised me on the following:
> 
> 1) git clone http://cgit.freedesktop.org/harfbuzz/
> 2) compile it
> 3) use hb-view for testing
> 
> but for some reason I had to replace http:// by git:// and anyhow I now 
> have the source tree.
> 
> I don't know how to compile it in place without messing up the contents 
> of the source tree so I just did a plain vanilla cp -R of the harfbuzz 
> directory to elsewhere and did ./autogen.sh (which is the only 
> executable in the root). It told me to install autoreconf so I did 
> apt-get install autoconf. It then threw an error <<Can't exec 
> "libtoolize">> so I did apt-get install libtool. The following is the 
> error I now get and don't know to get past (so please help):
> 
> $ ./autogen.sh
> configure.ac:2: warning: AC_INIT: not a literal: 
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=harfbuzz
> configure.ac:2: warning: AC_INIT: not a literal: 
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=harfbuzz
> libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in `.'.
> libtoolize: copying file `./config.guess'
> libtoolize: copying file `./config.sub'
> libtoolize: copying file `./install-sh'
> libtoolize: copying file `./ltmain.sh'
> libtoolize: Consider adding `AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])' to configure.ac and
> libtoolize: rerunning libtoolize, to keep the correct libtool macros 
> in-tree.
> libtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am.
> configure.ac:2: warning: AC_INIT: not a literal: 
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=harfbuzz
> configure.ac:2: warning: AC_INIT: not a literal: 
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=harfbuzz
> configure.ac:32: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_SUBST
>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
>       See the Autoconf documentation.
> configure.ac:106: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_PROG
> autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
> $
>