Can't build grub2 1.99-14ubuntu2 sources with automake 1.11.3

[Roger R. Cruz]

It looks like the latest ubuntu version of automake (1.11.3) can't build the source code for grub due to pkglib being changed to pkgdata. It builds fine with automake 1.11.1 but downgrading is not an option for me. Any info on when the source code will be changed to use the new variable?

The exact error messages are:

acinclude.m4:363: grub_CHECK_STACK_ARG_PROBE is expanded from...
configure.ac:532: the top level
conf/Makefile.common:43: subst $(srcdir: non-POSIX variable name
conf/Makefile.common:43: (probably a GNU make extension)
grub-core/Makefile.am:5: `conf/Makefile.common' included from here
conf/Makefile.common:150: `pkglibdir' is not a legitimate directory for `SCRIPTS'
grub-core/Makefile.am:5: `conf/Makefile.common' included from here
conf/Makefile.common:140: `pkglibdir' is not a legitimate directory for `DATA'
grub-core/Makefile.am:5: `conf/Makefile.common' included from here
conf/Makefile.common:43: subst $(srcdir: non-POSIX variable name
conf/Makefile.common:43: (probably a GNU make extension)
Makefile.am:6: `conf/Makefile.common' included from here
conf/Makefile.extra-dist:29: shell find $(top_srcdir: non-POSIX variable name
conf/Makefile.extra-dist:29: (probably a GNU make extension)
Makefile.am:7: `conf/Makefile.extra-dist' included from here
conf/Makefile.extra-dist:30: shell find $(top_srcdir: non-POSIX variable name
conf/Makefile.extra-dist:30: (probably a GNU make extension)
Makefile.am:7: `conf/Makefile.extra-dist' included from here
conf/Makefile.extra-dist:31: shell find $(top_srcdir: non-POSIX variable name
conf/Makefile.extra-dist:31: (probably a GNU make extension)
Makefile.am:7: `conf/Makefile.extra-dist' included from here
conf/Makefile.extra-dist:32: shell find $(top_srcdir: non-POSIX variable name
conf/Makefile.extra-dist:32: (probably a GNU make extension)
Makefile.am:7: `conf/Makefile.extra-dist' included from here
conf/Makefile.common:150: `pkglibdir' is not a legitimate directory for `SCRIPTS'
Makefile.am:6: `conf/Makefile.common' included from here
conf/Makefile.common:140: `pkglibdir' is not a legitimate directory for `DATA'
Makefile.am:6: `conf/Makefile.common' included from here
autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1

Thanks
Roger R. Cruz

[Roger R. Cruz (roger-r-cruz)]

This was reported in the grub mailing list as well:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2011-12/msg00057.html

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Roger R. Cruz (roger-r-cruz)]

I modified the code to use the new variables. This appears to work for me but it has almost no testing on it. use at your own risk.

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[Kamal Mostafa (kamalmostafa)]

grub2 (1.99-14ubuntu2) FTBFS in precise, with automake (1:1.11.3-1).

[Kamal Mostafa (kamalmostafa)]

This has been fixed upstream by http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/grub/trunk/grub/revision/3766

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Fixed in 1.99-15, merged into precise as part of 1.99-16ubuntu1:

grub2 (1.99-15) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Adam Conrad ]
  * grub.cfg_400.patch: Redirect grep stdout to /dev/null since
    grub-mkconfig is "exec > grub.cfg.new", which causes grep's input
    and output to be the same FD (LP: #934269) (closes: #652972)
  * efi_disk_cache.patch: Bump the disk cache on EFI systems to
    dramatically reduce load times for vmlinux/initrd (LP: #944347)

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * no_libzfs.patch: Use xasprintf rather than asprintf.
  * Backport from upstream:
    - Rewrite XFS btree parsing; fixes invalid BMAP (closes: #657776).
    - Handle newer autotools, and add some missing quotes in the process.
      (Note that this moves grub-mkconfig_lib and update-grub_lib to
      /usr/share/grub; I added links in /usr/lib/grub for compatibility.)
    - Fix incorrect identifiers in bash-completion (closes: #661415).
    - Add support for GRUB_CMDLINE_GNUMACH (closes: #660493).
  * Build with GCC 4.6 (closes: #654727).

  [ Debconf translations ]
  * Dutch (Jeroen Schot). Closes: #651275
  * Bulgarian (Damyan Ivanov). Closes: #653356
  * Icelandic (Sveinn í Felli).
  * Ukrainian (Yatsenko Alexandr). Closes: #654294
  * Italian (Luca Monducci). Closes: #654304
  * Thai (Theppitak Karoonboonyanan). Closes: #656551
  * Uyghur (Abduqadir Abliz)
  * Indonesian (Mahyuddin Susanto). Closes: #656705
  * Hebrew (Omer Zak). Closes: #656852
  * Turkish (Atila KOÇ). Closes: #656907
  * Polish (Michał Kułach). Closes: #657265
  * Asturian (Mikel González).
  * Dzongkha (Dawa Pemo)
  * Tamil (Dr.T.Vasudevan).
  * Belarusian (Viktar Siarhiejczyk). Closes: #662615

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:58:01 +0000

[zebulon (francoisgez2002-gmail)]

I have the same issue on my project that I developed around 3 years ago with a similarly aged automake, autoconf, libtool software.
The source code can be found here:
https://github.com/zebulon427/artridis
Any way round this without downgrading these software?
Cheers

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

@zebulon: Please ask on an autotools support list.