missing aclocal-1.4

[pratyushraunak]

***During Installation of "stegdetect" warning occurs:

WARNING: aclocal-1.4' is needed, and you do not seem to have it handy on your system. You might have modified some files without having the proper tools for further handling them. Check the README' file,
it often tells you about the needed prerequirements for installing
this package. You may also peek at any GNU archive site, in case
some other package would contain this missing `aclocal-1.4' program.
Makefile:183: recipe for target 'aclocal.m4' failed
make: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 1

***Doing "autoreconf -f -i" brought another error:

Makefile.am: error: Assembler source seen but 'CCAS' is undefined
Makefile.am: The usual way to define 'CCAS' is to add 'AM_PROG_AS'
Makefile.am: to 'configure.in' and run 'aclocal' and 'autoconf' again.
Makefile.am: error: Assembler source seen but 'CCASFLAGS' is undefined
Makefile.am: The usual way to define 'CCASFLAGS' is to add 'AM_PROG_AS'
Makefile.am: to 'configure.in' and run 'aclocal' and 'autoconf' again.
autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1

[zardus]

That's weird; the install works fine here... What distro are you using?

[pratyushraunak]

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
Release: 16.04

Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version:4.4.0-49-generic
hardware:x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[techvoltage]

That's GitHub screwing with the timestamps. This link helped
hyperrealm/libconfig#22

The following should work :
make AUTOCONF=: AUTOHEADER=: AUTOMAKE=: ACLOCAL=:
make install AUTOCONF=: AUTOHEADER=: AUTOMAKE=: ACLOCAL=:

[raildex1]

Is this safe to close now?

[gl00ten]

This still happen. And after i do the "make AUTOCONF=: AUTOHEADER=: AUTOMAKE=: ACLOCAL=:" command i get:

gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.   -DMAGIC='"/usr/local/share/magic"'  -g -O2 -c file.c
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.   -DMAGIC='"/usr/local/share/magic"'  -g -O2 -c apprentice.c
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.   -DMAGIC='"/usr/local/share/magic"'  -g -O2 -c fsmagic.c
fsmagic.c: In function ‘fsmagic’:
fsmagic.c:211:5: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘process’ [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
     process(buf, strlen(buf));
     ^
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.   -DMAGIC='"/usr/local/share/magic"'  -g -O2 -c softmagic.c
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.   -DMAGIC='"/usr/local/share/magic"'  -g -O2 -c ascmagic.c
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.   -DMAGIC='"/usr/local/share/magic"'  -g -O2 -c compress.c
compress.c: In function ‘uncompress’:
compress.c:148:3: warning: ignoring return value of ‘dup’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result]
   (void) dup(fdin[0]);
   ^
compress.c:153:3: warning: ignoring return value of ‘dup’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result]
   (void) dup(fdout[1]);
   ^
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.   -DMAGIC='"/usr/local/share/magic"'  -g -O2 -c is_tar.c
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.   -DMAGIC='"/usr/local/share/magic"'  -g -O2 -c readelf.c
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.   -DMAGIC='"/usr/local/share/magic"'  -g -O2 -c print.c
make[2]: ***  Aucune règle pour fabriquer la cible « Magdir/varied.out », nécessaire pour « magic ». Arrêt.
make[2] : on quitte le répertoire « /home/lontra/utils/stegdetect/file »
Makefile:330 : la recette pour la cible « all-recursive » a échouée
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Erreur 1
make[1] : on quitte le répertoire « /home/lontra/utils/stegdetect »
Makefile:476 : la recette pour la cible « all-recursive-am » a échouée
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Erreur 2

[mrambossek]

got the same issue (ubuntu 16.04 lts)