Re: PKGBUILD problem Can't exec "aclocal":

[Allan McRae <allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

richard terry wrote:
> I wonder if anyone can help me trace how to fix this error message:
>
> Can't exec "aclocal": No such file or directory 
> at /usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm line 326.
> autoreconf: failed to run aclocal: No such file or directory
>
> which seems to be holding up one of my PKGBUILDs which does in fact compile on 
> my laptop, but now won't on a new machine, so I'm obviously missing 
> something.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>   

You need to install automake.   Probably best to just "pacman -S base-devel"

> pacman -Qo $(which aclocal)
/usr/bin/aclocal is owned by automake 1.10.1-2