configure.ac:1: warning: AC_INIT: not a literal: m4_esyscmd(bash -c "echo -n $(cat ./.version)$VERSION_SUFFIX") #5832
Description
Describe the bug
I am trying to build nix on Fedora from source.
Steps To Reproduce
- Download 2.5.1 (or 2.5.0 or 2.4) from github tag
- Unpack tarball
- run
autoreconfor./bootstrap.sh
+ ./bootstrap.sh
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force
configure.ac:1: warning: AC_INIT: not a literal: m4_esyscmd(bash -c "echo -n $(cat ./.version)$VERSION_SUFFIX")
configure.ac:1: warning: AC_INIT: not a literal: m4_esyscmd(bash -c "echo -n $(cat ./.version)$VERSION_SUFFIX")
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
configure.ac:1: warning: AC_INIT: not a literal: m4_esyscmd(bash -c "echo -n $(cat ./.version)$VERSION_SUFFIX")
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force
configure.ac:1: warning: AC_INIT: not a literal: m4_esyscmd(bash -c "echo -n $(cat ./.version)$VERSION_SUFFIX")
configure.ac:108: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR
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
Expected behavior
configure script to be created without error.
Additional context
Call me old-fashioned, but I would really prefer to have a bootstrapped tarball as part of formal releases.