Summary:	ASTERISK-21760: Asterisk autoconf script does not check for pkg-config as a dependency
Reporter:	Olivier Krief (okrief)	Labels:
Date Opened:	2013-05-07 04:37:09	Date Closed:	2013-06-05 17:56:36
Priority:	Minor	Regression?
Status:	Closed/Complete	Components:	Core/BuildSystem
Versions:	11.3.0	Frequency of Occurrence	Constant
Related Issues:
Environment:	Debian Squeeze	Attachments:	( 0) configure ( 1) configure.log
Description:	On a fresh Debian Squeeze system, run: {{apt-get update}} {{apt-get upgrade}} {{apt-get install gcc g++ make libncurses5-dev bison libssl-dev libnewt-dev zlib1g-dev libxml2-dev libsqlite3-dev libmemcached-dev autoconf}} {{cd /usr/src}} {{wget http://downloads.asterisk.org/pub/telephony/asterisk/asterisk-11.3.0.tar.gz}} {{tar zxf asterisk-11.3.0.tar.gz}} {{sh -x ./bootstrap.sh}} {{./configure}} The last command fails with: checking for gsm_create in -lgsm... no ./configure: line 17928: syntax error near unexpected token `ILBC,' ./configure: line 17928: `      PKG_CHECK_MODULES(ILBC, libilbc,'
Comments:	By: Rusty Newton (rnewton) 2013-05-20 14:36:36.256-0500 Please attach (More Actions > Attach Files) the resulting *configure* script and we'll take a look. By: Olivier Krief (okrief) 2013-05-21 10:29:30.168-0500 Here is the output of sh -x ./configure | tee configure.log and the configure file itself (as generated by bootstrap.sh from Asterisk 11.4.0 (same symptoms as 11.3.0)). By: Rusty Newton (rnewton) 2013-05-30 15:25:58.740-0500 Can you verify whether the pkg-config package is installed on your system? From my Googling, it looks like pkg-config provides PKG_CHECK_MODULES and either your configure script or Autotools can't find it. By: Olivier Krief (okrief) 2013-05-31 09:21:49.932-0500 I typed : {{apt-get install pkg-config}} {{cd /usr/src/asterisk-11.4.0}} {{./bootstrap.sh}} {{./configure}} .. and last command ran successfully ! Thanks for finding this ! Is it possible for bootstap.sh to check the presence of the very one missing tool(s) it needed from pkg-config ? By: Rusty Newton (rnewton) 2013-06-05 17:56:36.243-0500 bq. Is it possible for bootstap.sh to check the presence of the very one missing tool(s) it needed from pkg-config ? Likely, but I'm not sure. That'll be an improvement request and not a bug fix. You might bring it up on the asterisk-dev mailing list and if someone produces a patch we can re-open this issue. If anyone gets a patch then just comment on the issue or ping a bug marshal in #asterisk-bugs. Until then I'll close this out. Glad you got it working! By: Alexander Traud (traud) 2018-05-04 09:05:49.156-0500 [~okrief], thanks for reporting this. It is a bug for sure because the error message is not descriptive. I stumbled about the same issue and commented about this in ASTERISK-27555: {{pkg-config}} is now part of of the installation script for the prerequisites {{contrib/scripts/install_prereq}}. This is not a resolution to this bug here but makes this issue more unlikely. By the way: You have to go for {{./bootstrap.sh}} (and install {{autoconf}}) only when you edit/patch the file {{configure.ac}}.