"missing" script possibly outdated?

[philwo]

I'm getting the following warning when running ./configure on my Mac OS X 10.10 machine. Unfortunately I'm not exactly a autoconf expert, so I'm not sure what to do. Do we just have to update the "missing" script?

philwo@hakase ~/src/pgdbf (master) ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
/Users/philwo/src/pgdbf/missing: Unknown `--is-lightweight' option
Try `/Users/philwo/src/pgdbf/missing --help' for more information
configure: WARNING: 'missing' script is too old or missing

Then, when trying to compile it, I get the following error, which I think is related:

philwo@hakase ~/src/pgdbf (master) make
CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && aclocal-1.14 -I m4 --install
 cd . && automake-1.14 --foreign
configure.ac:11: error: required file './compile' not found
configure.ac:11:   'automake --add-missing' can install 'compile'
make: *** [Makefile.in] Error 1

I'll investigate a bit.

[philwo]

It seems like updating the "missing" script is all that is necessary. I'll send a pull request tomorrow.

[dimon777]

What is the workaround for this? I'm still getting this error from the current repo.
This is a workaround:

$ rm compile && automake --add-missing

[philwo]

I've sent a pull request that fixes this issue here: #15

Unfortunately I haven't heard back from Kirk since a long time and it hasn't been merged. Hope everything's alright.

In the meantime, you could manually patch that into your code (or use your workaround :)).

[veob]

@philwo, thanks for the patch :)

[justintocci]

To fix this, I ran autoreconf -ivf then re-configured. Worked like a charm after that.