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fatal: program autoreconf is required but was not found

I followed the installation of GHCJS and when I came to the step "Build the libraries" and I typed the command ghcjs-boot --dev But I get the following lines in my Terminal

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generating configure script for ./boot/base
MyDir/.ghcjs/x86_64-darwin-0.1.0-7.8.3/ghcjs/ghcjs-boot/boot/base$ [autoreconf]: <not found> 
fatal: program autoreconf is required but was not found
name searched for (from boot.yaml or command line): autoreconf
searched in PATH:
MyDir/Haskell/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin:MyDir/Haskell/bin

Does anyone know what's wrong here?

Solution

  • Your system is lacking the auto(re)conf tool which is (unfortunately) not installed with XCode any more. There is an old post explaining how to install auto(re)conf on OS X manually:

    Install autoreconf on OSX lion?