configure error

[fontforge]

configure error

[AlexeiKharchev]

to solve problem I just commented configure.ac:

sed -i '106,111s/^(.*)$/#\1/' configure.ac
sed -i 's/^(AC_CHECK_FUNCS.hypot)/#\1/' configure.ac
autoreconf -fi
LIBS=-lm ./configure --prefix="$installdir" --disable-static
make
make check
make install

but it is not a solution!

[JoesCat]

Don't have time to check it right now this moment, I will check this later today, but here is something you can try in the meantime.

While dealing with the various versions of configure, some versions didn't quite understand AC_SEARCH_LIBS(), and therefore AC_CHECK_LIB() was used as a catch. Newer versions of configure are okay with AC_SEARCH_LIBS(), and I suspect that autoconf may have dropped AC_CHECK_LIB() or something may have broke with autoconf since this code hasn't changed for years.

Try simplify configure.ac here:

AC_CHECK_HEADER([math.h],
  AC_SEARCH_LIBS([cos],[m],[have_libm=yes],
    AC_CHECK_LIB([m],[cos],[have_libm=yes])))
if test x"${have_libm}" != xyes; then
   AC_MSG_FAILURE([ERROR: Please install Math libraries and math.h include files for libm],[1])
fi

to

have_libm=maybe
AC_CHECK_HEADER([math.h],
    AC_SEARCH_LIBS([cos],[m],[have_libm=yes]))
if test x"${have_libm}" != xyes; then
   AC_MSG_FAILURE([ERROR: Please install Math libraries and math.h include files     fi

If it works and you want to send in a patch, go ahead.
Looking at it now, I could have updated configure.guess and configure.sub too :-)

[JoesCat]

Hi @AlexeiKharchev,
Had to run linux mint to find this problem...Found the problem. You are missing libtool development files.
Doing a search for linux mint libtool showed this mint libtool dev files

After you install those dev files try again:

autoreconf -fvi
automake
./configure
make check

Seeing this works, I think it is safe to close this issue as resolved.