Questions[autoconf](ubuntu)

I try to install mp4fpsmod on Linux 4.19.104+ x86_64 Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS in Colab. To reproduse please copypaste these three lines into a Colab cell and hit shift+enter:

!git clone -qqq https://github.com/nu774/mp4fpsmod.git > /dev/null
!sudo apt-get update -y -qqq --fix-missing && apt-get install -y -qqq autoconf > /dev/null
!cd mp4fpsmod/ && ./bootstrap.sh && ./configure && make && strip mp4fpsmod && make install

The error in ./bootstrap.sh:

Running autoreconf...
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: configure.ac: adding subdirectory mp4v2 to autoreconf
autoreconf: Entering directory `mp4v2'
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force 
autoreconf: configure.ac: creating directory autoaux
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force
configure.ac:83: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1

Do you know what is wrong?

Celestia still doesn't have binaries for 19.10
The other option is to build from source.
I've downloaded the source of 1.6.2-beta2 from github.
Installed needed packages written here. plus gettext said here. so the needed packages was:

sudo apt install qtbase5-dev-tools qtbase5-dev libqt5opengl5-dev qtchooser libglu1-mesa-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev libtheora-dev liblua5.3-dev build-essential gettext

the INSTALL says how to build. while desktop of Ubuntu is gnome we need this instructions (maybe you need to do autoreconf --install before starting the first line.):

autoreconf -f
./configure --with-gnome    #says --with-INTERFACE
make
make install

the first line done successfully. but in configure step. we face the needed packages:

No package 'libgnomeui-2.0' found
No package 'gtk+-2.0' found
No package 'gtkglext-1.0' found

but I do not know how to install these packages. I can not find them. How can I install these packages and finalize installation of Celesta?

I've tried to compile programs, including neofetch, cmatrix, browsh, and a few others all to the same effect.

I run:

git clone repo Works fine cd repo name Works fine ./autogen.sh Works fine ./configure Always comes out as something like this:

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes
checking for cc... cc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether cc accepts -g... yes
checking for cc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking whether cc understands -c and -o together... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of cc... gcc3
checking for c++... c++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether c++ accepts -g... yes
checking dependency style of c++... gcc3
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for protoc... no
configure: error: cannot find protoc, the Protocol Buffers compiler

Specifically the last 2 lines are always the same, and then from there make and make install fail due to there being no file:

make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

I've tested on both Ubuntu 19.10 and Linux Mint 19.3

Am I missing a tool or package of some kind?

I'm trying to install gnuplot 5.3 from github. I'm running

aclocal
autoheader
autoconf
automake

inside the package location.

This gives an error because automake is looking for Makefile.in and I have a bunch of Makefile.am files, supposedly automake should change the .am files to .in but that clearly doesn't happen. Can't run ./configure after becuase of the same reason, how do I get the .am files to change to .in?

I am following https://robots.thoughtbot.com/the-magic-behind-configure-make-make-install to learn how to use autoconf and automake to create the configure script and Makefile.

Below is the content of configure.ac file:

AC_INIT ([helloworld], [0.1], [[email protected]])
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
AC_PROG_CC
AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])
AC_OUTPUT

However, when I run aclocal command, I get the following error.

user $ aclocal
configure.ac:2: error: AC_INIT should be called with package and version arguments
/usr/share/aclocal-1.14/init.m4:29: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is expanded from...
configure.ac:2: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 1
user $ 

I did google search to see if line AC_INIT ([helloworld], [0.1], [[email protected]]) was incorrect. But it looks like it is correct way to use AC_INIT.

How do I fix this ?

Also, below is the content of Makefile.am file (if this is related to the error):

AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign
bin_PROGRAMS = helloworld
helloworld_SOURCES = hello.c