O2 installation Ubuntu 20.04 fails at autotools (aliBuild 1.8.7)

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aliBuild version:

aliBuild version: 1.8.7 (ubuntu2004_x86-64)

os-release:

Description:	Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Release:	20.04
Codename:	focal

texinfo version:

texinfo/focal,now 6.7.0.dfsg.2-5 amd64 [installed]

Cheers,

I tried pre-compiled builds for Ubuntu with aliBuild 1.8.7.
It seems trying to build autools, regardless the downloaded package.
I can guess this is somehow similar to https://alice.its.cern.ch/jira/browse/O2-2440 and will go away with its fix.

However even manual installation fails, it might be related to the default file encoding used by texinfo since v6.7.
Tried a bit of unsuccessful debugging: e.g. I found very few similar issues but, for instance: m4, texinfo build failure · Issue #21163 · void-linux/void-packages · GitHub.
Build log attached.

log.txt (42.3 KB)
Any hint?
Thanks in advance.

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#2

Seeing the same problem in a fresh Ubuntu 20.04 docker container.

#3

Fix autotools build on Ubuntu 20.04 by TimoWilken · Pull Request #3148 · alisw/alidist · GitHub fixes it. Thanks Timo.

#4

Hi! Sorry, I only saw this post today. Seems like we googled for the same things, though!

I’ve merged Fix autotools build on Ubuntu 20.04 by TimoWilken · Pull Request #3148 · alisw/alidist · GitHub, so the regular alidist master works on Ubuntu 20.04 now.

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