Bootstrap aclocal.

parts.rst

@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ bzip2 1.0.8
 ``bzip2`` is a compression format that compresses more than ``gzip``. It
 is preferred where we can use it, and makes source code sizes smaller.
 
-coreutils 5.0.0
+coreutils 5.0
 ===============
 
 GNU Coreutils is a collection of widely used utilities such as ``cat``,
@@ -370,32 +370,43 @@ packaging software on computer systems where a Bourne shell is available.
 At this stage we still do not have a working autotools system, so we manually install
 ``autoconf`` script and replace a few placeholder variables with ``sed``.
 
+Autoconf 2.52 is the newest version of ``autoconf`` that does not need ``perl``, and hence
+a bit easier to install.
+
+automake 1.6.3
+==============
+
+GNU Automake is a tool for automatically generating Makefile.in files. It is another major
+part of GNU Autotools build system and consists of ``aclocal`` and ``automake`` scripts.
+
+We bootstrap it using a 3 stage process:
+
+1. Use ``sed`` to replace a few placeholder variables in ``aclocal.in`` script.
+   Then we manually install ``aclocal`` script and its dependencies.
+2. Patch ``configure.in`` to create ``automake`` file but skip ``Makefile.in`` processing.
+   Again we manually install ``automake`` script and its dependencies.
+3. We now use ``aclocal``, ``autoconf``, and ``automake`` to do a proper build and install.
+
 automake 1.4-p6
 ===============
 
-GNU Automake is a tool for automatically generating Makefile.in files. It is another
+This is an older version of GNU Automake. Various versions of GNU Autotools are not fully
-major part of GNU Autotools build system.
+compatible, and we will need older ``automake`` to build some older software.
-
-``automake`` again needs both ``automake`` and ``autoconf``. In order to bootstrap it
-we patch ``configure.in`` file to produce ``automake`` and skip ``Makefile`` effectively
-removing dependency on ``automake`` at the cost of having to install ``automake`` manually.
-
-Then we rebuild both ``automake`` using already installed ``autoconf`` and ``automake``.
 
 autoconf 2.52
 =============
 
-We now properly rebuild ``autoconf`` using ``autoconf`` and ``automake``.
+We now properly rebuild ``autoconf`` using ``automake-1.4`` and manually installed ``autoconf``.
 
 autoconf 2.13
 =============
 
-Different versions of autotools are not fully compatible, so build older ``autoconf`` too.
+An older ``autoconf`` will be necessary to build GNU Binutils.
 
 autoconf 2.12
 =============
 
-Yet another old autoconf version that we will need for GNU Binutils.
+Yet another old autoconf version that we will need for some parts of GNU Binutils.
 
 libtool 1.4
 ===========
@@ -438,11 +449,3 @@ interactively.  This newer version of ``bash`` compiles without any patches,
 provides new features, and is built with GNU readline support so it can be used
 as an interactive shell. autoconf 2.52 is used to regenerate the configure
 script and bison is used to recreate some included generated files.
-
-automake 1.6.3
-==============
-
-This is a newer version of GNU Automake that is required to build newer
-versions of ``autoconf``. We again use two stage approach like we did
-with ``automake-1.4`` because previous versions of ``automake`` are too old
-to properly build ``automake-1.6``.

rootfs.sh

@@ -156,9 +156,6 @@ get_file ftp://sourceware.org/pub/bzip2/bzip2-1.0.8.tar.gz 1
 # coreutils 5.0
 get_file https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.tar.bz2 1
 
-# coreutils 6.3
-get_file https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.3.tar.bz2
-
 # heirloom-devtools
 get_file http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/heirloom/heirloom-devtools/070527/heirloom-devtools-070527.tar.bz2
 
@@ -189,6 +186,9 @@ get_file https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grep/grep-2.4.tar.gz
 # diffutils 2.7
 get_file https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/diffutils-2.7.tar.gz
 
+# coreutils 6.3
+get_file https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-6.3.tar.bz2
+
 # gawk 3.0.4
 get_file https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gawk/gawk-3.0.4.tar.gz
 
@@ -210,6 +210,9 @@ get_file https://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.6.2.tar.gz
 # autoconf 2.52
 get_file https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.52.tar.gz
 
+# automake 1.6.3
+get_file https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.6.3.tar.bz2
+
 # automake 1.4-p6
 get_file https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.4-p6.tar.gz
 
@@ -228,9 +231,6 @@ get_file https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.14.tar.bz2
 # bash 3.2.57
 get_file https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-3.2.57.tar.gz
 
-# automake 1.6.3
-get_file https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.6.3.tar.bz2
-
 # General cleanup
 find tmp -name .git -exec rm -rf \;
 

sysa/autoconf-2.52/stage1.sh

@@ -4,12 +4,9 @@
 
 src_compile() {
     cp autoconf.in autoconf
-    sed -i "s# @SHELL@#/bin/sh#" autoconf
+    sed -i -e "s# @SHELL@#/bin/sh#" -e 's/@M4@/m4/' -e 's/@AWK@/awk/' \
-    sed -i 's/@M4@/m4/' autoconf
+	-e  's/@PACKAGE_NAME@/Autoconf/' -e 's/@VERSION@/2.52/' \
-    sed -i 's/@AWK@/awk/' autoconf
+	-e "s#@datadir@#${PREFIX}/share/autoconf-2.52#" autoconf
-    sed -i 's/@PACKAGE_NAME@/Autoconf/' autoconf
-    sed -i 's/@VERSION@/2.52/' autoconf
-    sed -i "s#@datadir@#${PREFIX}/share/autoconf-2.52#" autoconf
     chmod +x autoconf
 
     m4 autoconf.m4 --freeze-state=autoconf.m4f

sysa/autoconf-2.52/stage2.sh

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ src_prepare() {
 
     # Install autoconf data files into versioned directory
     for file in */Makefile.in  Makefile.in; do
-	sed -i '/^pkgdatadir/s:$:-@VERSION@:' $file
+        sed -i '/^pkgdatadir/s:$:-@VERSION@:' $file
     done
 }
 

sysa/automake-1.4-p6/automake-1.4-p6.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Andrius Štikonas <andrius@stikonas.eu>
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+
+src_prepare() {
+    rm configure Makefile.in */Makefile.in aclocal.m4
+    aclocal-1.6
+    autoconf-2.52
+    # When building with newer automake we get the following error
+    # Makefile.am:59: ETAGS_ARGS multiply defined in condition TRUE
+    sed -i '/ETAGS_ARGS/,+1d' Makefile.am
+    automake-1.6
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+    ./configure --prefix=/after
+}

sysa/automake-1.4-p6/stage1.sh

@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Andrius Štikonas <andrius@stikonas.eu>
-#
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-
-src_prepare() {
-    sed -i 's#m4/Makefile tests/Makefile##; s/Makefile //' configure.in
-
-    rm configure Makefile.in */Makefile.in
-    autoconf-2.52
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-    ./configure --prefix=/after
-}
-
-src_compile() {
-    cp m4/amversion.in m4/amversion.m4
-    sed -i 's/@VERSION@/1.4-p6/' m4/amversion.m4
-    sed -i 's/@APIVERSION@/1.4/' m4/amversion.m4
-}
-
-src_install() {
-    install automake "${PREFIX}"/bin/automake-1.4
-    mkdir -p "${PREFIX}"/share/automake-1.4
-    cp -r *.am "${PREFIX}"/share/automake-1.4/
-
-    install aclocal "${PREFIX}"/bin/aclocal-1.4
-    mkdir -p "${PREFIX}"/share/aclocal-1.4
-    cp -r m4/*.m4 "${PREFIX}"/share/aclocal-1.4/
-}

sysa/automake-1.6.3/stage1.sh

@@ -3,27 +3,22 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
 
 src_prepare() {
-    sed -i '/Makefile/d' configure.in
-
     rm configure Makefile.in */Makefile.in */*/Makefile.in aclocal.m4
-    autoconf-2.52
+    cp aclocal.in aclocal
-}
+    cp m4/amversion.in m4/amversion.m4
-
-src_configure() {
-    ./configure --prefix=/after
 }
 
 src_compile() {
-    cp m4/amversion.in m4/amversion.m4
+    sed -i -e 's/@VERSION@/1.6.3/' -e 's/@APIVERSION@/1.6/' m4/amversion.m4
-    sed -i 's/@VERSION@/1.6.3/' m4/amversion.m4
+
-    sed -i 's/@APIVERSION@/1.6/' m4/amversion.m4
+    sed -i -e 's#@PERL@#/after/bin/perl#' -e 's/@PACKAGE@/automake/' \
+	-e 's/@APIVERSION@/1.6/' -e 's/@VERSION@/1.6.3/' \
+	-e 's#@prefix@#/after#' -e 's#@datadir@#/after/share#' aclocal
 }
 
 src_install() {
-    install automake "${PREFIX}"/bin/automake-1.6
+    mkdir -p "${PREFIX}"/share/automake-1.6/Automake
-    mkdir -p "${PREFIX}"/share/automake-1.6/{Automake,am}
     cp lib/Automake/*.pm "${PREFIX}"/share/automake-1.6/Automake/
-    cp -r lib/am/*.am "${PREFIX}"/share/automake-1.6/am/
 
     install aclocal "${PREFIX}"/bin/aclocal-1.6
     mkdir -p "${PREFIX}"/share/aclocal-1.6

sysa/automake-1.6.3/stage2.sh

@@ -3,22 +3,29 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
 
 src_prepare() {
+    sed -i '/Makefile/d' configure.in
+
     rm configure Makefile.in */Makefile.in */*/Makefile.in aclocal.m4
     aclocal-1.6
     autoconf-2.52
-    automake-1.6
 }
 
 src_configure() {
     ./configure --prefix=/after
 }
 
-src_install() {
+src_compile() {
-    # cleanup old manual install
+    cp m4/amversion.in m4/amversion.m4
-    rm "${PREFIX}"/bin/automake-1.6
+    sed -i 's/@VERSION@/1.6.3/' m4/amversion.m4
-    rm "${PREFIX}"/bin/aclocal-1.6
+    sed -i 's/@APIVERSION@/1.6/' m4/amversion.m4
-    rm -rf "${PREFIX}"/share/automake-1.6
+}
-    rm -rf "${PREFIX}"/share/aclocal-1.6
+
-
+src_install() {
-    default_src_install
+    install automake "${PREFIX}"/bin/automake-1.6
+    mkdir -p "${PREFIX}"/share/automake-1.6/am
+    cp lib/Automake/*.pm "${PREFIX}"/share/automake-1.6/Automake/
+    cp -r lib/am/*.am "${PREFIX}"/share/automake-1.6/am/
+
+    install aclocal "${PREFIX}"/bin/aclocal-1.6
+    cp -r m4/*.m4 "${PREFIX}"/share/aclocal-1.6/
 }

sysa/automake-1.6.3/stage3.sh

@@ -3,10 +3,10 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
 
 src_prepare() {
-    rm configure Makefile.in */Makefile.in
+    rm configure Makefile.in */Makefile.in */*/Makefile.in aclocal.m4
+    aclocal-1.6
     autoconf-2.52
-    aclocal-1.4
+    automake-1.6
-    automake-1.4
 }
 
 src_configure() {
@@ -15,9 +15,10 @@ src_configure() {
 
 src_install() {
     # cleanup old manual install
-    rm "${PREFIX}"/bin/automake-1.4
+    rm "${PREFIX}"/bin/automake-1.6
-    rm -rf "${PREFIX}"/share/automake-1.4
+    rm "${PREFIX}"/bin/aclocal-1.6
-    rm -rf "${PREFIX}"/share/aclocal-1.4
+    rm -rf "${PREFIX}"/share/automake-1.6
+    rm -rf "${PREFIX}"/share/aclocal-1.6
 
     default_src_install
 }

sysa/run.sh

@@ -76,8 +76,11 @@ populate_device_nodes
 
 build autoconf-2.52 stage1.sh
 
-build automake-1.4-p6 stage1.sh
+build automake-1.6.3 stage1.sh
-build automake-1.4-p6 stage2.sh
+build automake-1.6.3 stage2.sh
+build automake-1.6.3 stage3.sh
+
+build automake-1.4-p6
 
 build autoconf-2.52 stage2.sh
 

sysa/run2.sh

@@ -9,9 +9,6 @@
 set -e
 . helpers.sh
 
-build automake-1.6.3 stage1.sh
-build automake-1.6.3 stage2.sh
-
 echo "Bootstrapping completed."
 
 exec env - PATH=/after/bin PS1="\w # " bash -i