autoconf is missing aclocal

[gwoplock]

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  when running autoreconf -i and autoconf it failed due to missing aclocal
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I attempted to change the autoconf formula but adding automake as a dependency causes a circular dependency. When I added the dependency I made it a run time dependency so it should be able to break the circular dependency.

[JCount]

aclocal is part of GNU's automake set of tools. You should be able to simply run brew install automake to add it to your path, and then run autoreconf -i.

[gwoplock]

I figured that out. I would assume that since autoreconf is part of the autoconf package that it would have everything it needed.

To me, the solution would be to add a runtime dependency to the autoconf package but homebrew cant resolves circular dependencies as far as I can tell. since automake isn't required until autoconf is run it should be able to install autoconf then automake. Further, it could install the 2 in any order because both have the other as runtime dependencies.

[fxcoudert]

automake requires autoconf, while only a small part of autoconf (autoreconf) needs automake. It may be seen as unfortunate that GNU decided to split those into two packages, but that's what we have to deal with…