Apple M1 and libgcrypt 1.9.2

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 1:27 PM Marius Schamschula
<lists at schamschula.com> wrote:
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> On Mar 24, 2021, at 12:15 PM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 1:09 PM Marius Schamschula
> <lists at schamschula.com> wrote:
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> On Mar 24, 2021, at 12:03 PM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 12:59 PM Marius Schamschula
> <lists at schamschula.com> wrote:
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> On Mar 24, 2021, at 11:41 AM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 12:35 PM Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, 23 Mar 2021 10:53, Marius Schamschula said:
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> https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/tree/7c793c22a4315ee01ae92ed7104cea4d6def1036/devel/libgcrypt/files
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> You should never ever patch configure - that is a generated file.  So
> this is just a temoporary kludge to make things build.
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> That's actually a fairly clean fix for the break-fix cycle in this circumstance.
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> The Apple M1's lack Libtool and Autotools, so they can't autoreconf if
> configure.ac is touched.
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> Why do you believe libtool and the autotools don’t exist on M1 machines?
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> The one I bought did not have them. I had to install libtool myself:
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> % command -v autoconf
> % command -v autoreconf
> % command -v libtool
> /usr/bin/libtool
> % command -v glibtool
> /usr/local/bin/glibtool
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> Indeed, Werner is correct: fixing the configure.ac file is the better approach.
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> Until you have to autoreconf and the tools are missing or too old…
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> Sure, libtool is part of Xcode.
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> Everything else is installed via MacPorts, Homebrew or Fink - or manually built.
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> This machine has Command Line Tools, not Xcode. (I don't have a
> AppleId or developer account).
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> The CLT package installs alongside each version of Xcode. All the above mentioned packages should compile w/o the SDKs provided by Xcode.

My M1 does not have Xcode. It only has CLT:

% find /Applications -name 'Xcode*'
% find /Library -name 'Xcode*'
% find /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools -name autoconf
% find /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools -name autoreconf
% find /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools -name libtool
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/libtool
% find /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools -name glibtool
%

CLT only provides a basic toolchain. The basic toolchain is all we
really need. Other tools folks might expect, like autoconf and
autoreconf, are not available.

And this issue is not limited to a new M1. If you stand up a Solaris
box the same problems apply because Autotools is too old. Or if you
regression test on CentOS 5, Ubuntu 4 or Fedora 1. If you have to
autoreconf then the build breaks.

That's why I said it was a fairly clean fix for the circumstance. The
configure patch avoids the autoreconf.

Jeff