bug#16530: Bootstrapping fails with missing "m4/cu-progs.m4"

[Assaf Gordon]

Hello,

Just tried to compile coreutils from scratch, and encountered the following
problem:
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$ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils
$ cd coreutils
$ ./bootstrap
./bootstrap: Bootstrapping from checked-out coreutils sources...
./bootstrap: consider installing git-merge-changelog from gnulib
./bootstrap: getting gnulib files...
Submodule 'gnulib' (git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnulib.git) registered for path
'gnulib'
Cloning into 'gnulib'...
remote: Counting objects: 152449, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (23127/23127), done.
remote: Total 152449 (delta 129329), reused 152347 (delta 129264)
Receiving objects: 100% (152449/152449), 26.01 MiB | 10.80 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (129329/129329), done.
Checking connectivity... done
Submodule path 'gnulib': checked out
'cfe23e81eb50e13417b1e2818314c50eb33088bb'
./bootstrap: getting translations into po/.reference for coreutils...
receiving incremental file list
./
af.po
be.po
bg.po
ca.po
cs.po
da.po
de.po
el.po
eo.po
es.po
et.po
eu.po
fi.po
fr.po
ga.po
gl.po
hr.po
hu.po
ia.po
id.po
it.po
ja.po
kk.po
ko.po
lg.po
lt.po
ms.po
nb.po
nl.po
pl.po
pt.po
pt_BR.po
ro.po
ru.po
sk.po
sl.po
sv.po
tr.po
uk.po
vi.po
zh_CN.po
zh_TW.po

sent 835 bytes  received 4407641 bytes  801541.09 bytes/sec
total size is 16351164  speedup is 3.71
./bootstrap: updated po/af.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/be.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/bg.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/ca.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/cs.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/da.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/de.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/el.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/eo.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/es.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/et.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/eu.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/fi.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/fr.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/ga.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/gl.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/hr.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/hu.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/ia.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/id.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/it.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/ja.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/kk.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/ko.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/lg.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/lt.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/ms.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/nb.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/nl.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/pl.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/pt.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/pt_BR.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/ro.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/ru.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/sk.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/sl.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/sv.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/tr.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/uk.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/vi.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/zh_CN.po...
./bootstrap: updated po/zh_TW.po...
./bootstrap: autopoint --force
sh: build-aux/git-version-gen: not found
/usr/bin/m4: m4_esyscmd subprocess failed
/usr/bin/m4:configure.ac:444: cannot open `m4/cu-progs.m4': No such file or
directory
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
autopoint: *** Missing version: please specify in configure.ac through a
line 'AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION(x.yy.zz)' the gettext version the package is
using
autopoint: *** Stop.
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I'm using:
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$ autoconf --version | head -n1
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.65
$ automake --version | head -n1
automake (GNU automake) 1.14
$ gettext --version | head -n1
gettext (GNU gettext-runtime) 0.18.3
$ gcc --version | head -n1
gcc (GCC) 4.8.2
$ m4 --version | head -n1
m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.13
$ git describe --always
v8.22-16-gbe97f3e
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This was done on an old Ubuntu server, so some package
(gettext,automake,gcc) were compiled from source and are in non-standard
location, if that matters.

Thanks,
 -Gordon