[Bug 18322] New: Cannot recreate "configure" script

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18322

Summary: Cannot recreate "configure" script
           Product: Wine
           Version: 20050930
          Platform: PC-x86-64
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: build-env
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]

I'm trying to create a paired-down version of Wine that contains only the
registry and COM framework (no GUI) from Wine.
I'm calling this project "v3c-com" for want of a better name, and it's purpose
is to act as a development framework/runtime for COM development under
GNU/Linux, ideally with DCOM interoperability with Windows.

As a first step I modified the configure.ac script:
1. package name change
2. remove configure arguments
3. remove programs and dll targets
4. Recreate "configure" - but how?

I tried just deleting the "configure" script and running tools/wineinstall...

$ tools/wineinstall
    Wine Installer v1.0

Running configure...

configure: error: cannot find sources (server/atom.c) in . or ..

Configure failed, aborting install.

I've indented the output for readability.
Let me repeat - I deleted "configure" so what's tools/wineinstall running???

I also tried running automake, but it's giving bizarre messages - probably
because aclocal.m4 isn't generated by autoconf, but it's just a guess.

[Bug 18322] Cannot recreate "configure" script

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18322

Philip Ashmore  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Version|20050930                    |1.1.20

--- Comment #1 from Philip Ashmore   2009-05-01 21:16:58 ---
Changed version this bug applies to - the latest version isn't the bottom
version.

[Bug 18322] Cannot recreate "configure" script

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18322

Dmitry Timoshkov  changed:

What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
          Component|build-env                   |-unknown
         Resolution|                            |INVALID

--- Comment #2 from Dmitry Timoshkov   2009-05-01 23:36:38 ---
There is no a bug in Wine. If you are changing the configure.ac an that
breaks things - go and learn how to do that, don't blame Wine and report
a bug here.

[Bug 18322] Cannot recreate "configure" script

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18322

Dmitry Timoshkov  changed:

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             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED

--- Comment #3 from Dmitry Timoshkov   2009-05-01 23:36:56 ---
Closing invalid.

[Bug 18322] Cannot recreate "configure" script

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18322

Philip Ashmore  changed:

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                 CC|                            |[e-mail]
             Status|CLOSED                      |UNCONFIRMED
         Resolution|INVALID                     |

--- Comment #4 from Philip Ashmore   2009-05-02 04:48:27 ---
Thanks for your quick reply.

I can see that I haven't succeeded in making the problem abundantly clear so
let's try again.

1. I want to build a package based on Wine
2. I need to modify configure.ac
3. I need the existing Wine source distribution to be able to recreate the
"configure" script from a changed configure.ac

I'm stuck at (3) above because it requires that the existing Wine source
distribution is able to at least recreate the configure script from an
_unmodified_ configure.ac

I'm running Debian Lenny amd64.
To test this yourself, go through the following steps.

Obtain the source bzipped tar ball "wine-1.1.20.tar.bz2" into a directory
writeable by you as a normal user and run the following bash script

mkdir tmp    # You need these otherwise (like me) wineinstall will look
    cd tmp       # for "configure" in the _parent_ directory of wine-1.1.20
    tar -xjf ../wine-1.1.20.tar.bz2
    cd wine-1.1.20
    rm configure # We're testing that wineinstall will re-generate this
    tools/wineinstall

Like me, you should get

Wine Installer v1.0

You're running this from the wrong directory.
    Change to the Wine source's main directory and try again.

It looks like wineinstall doesn't even try to regenerate configure.

As for reading the documentation, which version? I got "Autoconf, Automake and
Libtool" from
   http://sources.redhat.com/autobook/autobook-1.5.tar.gz
In chapter 8 of this book there is a section called "bootstrapping" that
indicates that how you get to the point of running configure is a matter of
taste - the options offered were "autogen.sh", "bootstrap2, "autoreconf" and
"AM_MAINTAINER_MODE", non of which are available in the Wine source
distribution.

I also noticed that "aclocal.m4" is hand-written, not generated from
configure.ac by aclocal, and this would lead me to the conclusion that Wine is
a non-standard Autotools project and therefore might have a non-standard means
of re-generating "configure".

Sure, I can "try" running autoconf and see if that works, but gee I thought it
might be nice if you could please tell me how you did it, so I can do it the
same way!

[Bug 18322] Cannot recreate "configure" script

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18322

Dmitry Timoshkov  changed:

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                 CC|[e-mail]   |
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID

--- Comment #5 from Dmitry Timoshkov   2009-05-02 05:28:05 ---
All this is hardly a Wine bug. Wine has no any problem with generating
configure from configure.ac.

[Bug 18322] Cannot recreate "configure" script

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18322

Dmitry Timoshkov  changed:

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             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED

--- Comment #6 from Dmitry Timoshkov   2009-05-02 05:28:40 ---
Closing.

[Bug 18322] Cannot recreate "configure" script

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18322

Philip Ashmore  changed:

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             Status|CLOSED                      |UNCONFIRMED
         Resolution|INVALID                     |

--- Comment #7 from Philip Ashmore   2009-05-02 05:53:39 ---
For the love of Pete!

I just went to great detail in showing you that wineinstall doesn't try to
generate configure from configure.ac.

You need to tell me (I promise I won't tell anyone else) the _exact_ procedure
that I need to follow to recreate configure.

There's no point telling me that "Wine has no any problem with generating
configure from configure.ac" when you don't tell me what commands to use to
generate it.

[Bug 18322] Cannot recreate "configure" script

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18322

Dmitry Timoshkov  changed:

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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID

--- Comment #8 from Dmitry Timoshkov   2009-05-02 06:00:31 ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> I just went to great detail in showing you that wineinstall doesn't try to
> generate configure from configure.ac.

Why shoud it do that?
> You need to tell me (I promise I won't tell anyone else) the _exact_ procedure
> that I need to follow to recreate configure.

man autoconf?
> There's no point telling me that "Wine has no any problem with generating
> configure from configure.ac" when you don't tell me what commands to use to
> generate it.

This is not a user support forum.

[Bug 18322] Cannot recreate "configure" script

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18322

Dmitry Timoshkov  changed:

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             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED

--- Comment #9 from Dmitry Timoshkov   2009-05-02 06:01:10 ---
Closing invalid.

[Bug 18322] Cannot recreate "configure" script

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18322

Philip Ashmore  changed:

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             Status|CLOSED                      |UNCONFIRMED
         Resolution|INVALID                     |

--- Comment #10 from Philip Ashmore   2009-05-02 06:41:13 ---
So my guess that it was autoconf was correct! Geez that was a tough one!
When running autoconf, do I need to supply any flags?
I checked out "man autoconf" like you suggested and there are loads of them
(flags, that is).

By continuing to ask the same question without getting a precise answer, I have
to ask myself - with regards to Wine:

Is there a written offer for source that's incomplete in some way?

I would have to answer "yes". You could help me answer "no" in one of two ways.

1. Paste the command line you use into a script called "bootstrap"
2. Documenting the bootstrap procedure and include it with the source code

If you insist on pussy-footing around than you (not me) are making a case for a 
GPL and therefore LPGL violation.

See
   http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-violation.html

for details.

By the way, simple omissions inability to communicate effectively and
thoughtlessness aren't valid exceptions.

[Bug 18322] Cannot recreate "configure" script

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18322

Dmitry Timoshkov  changed:

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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID

--- Comment #11 from Dmitry Timoshkov   2009-05-02 07:41:38 ---
Again, this is your problem, not a Wine bug of any kind. And once again,
this is not a place for user support, look for it somewhere else.

[Bug 18322] Cannot recreate "configure" script

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18322

Dmitry Timoshkov  changed:

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             Status|RESOLVED                    |CLOSED

--- Comment #12 from Dmitry Timoshkov   2009-05-02 07:41:56 ---
Closing.

[Bug 18322] Cannot recreate "configure" script

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18322

--- Comment #13 from Austin English   2009-05-02 13:48:16 ---
(In reply to comment #10)
> - Documenting the bootstrap procedure and include it with the source code

$ rm configure && autoconf && ./configure

works fine here.

tools/wineinstall does not generate configure, since configure is kept in tree,
e.g., AJ runs autoconf whenever configure.ac changes.

If you're changing the wine source in some way, you can add that change to
wineinstall, nothing's stopping you...