Failures building from fresh checkout on Arch Linux about modsecurity

[abedra]

The build works if I add the following lines to config.ac

m4_pattern_allow([AM_PROG_AR])
AM_PROG_AR

and remove the -Werror option from AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE.

There is still the matter of the lua build not working, but that is listed in another issue and can be bypassed by disabling it for now.

[brenosilva]

You don't need to re-run the autogen.sh script. Can you try download the tarball from www.modsecurity.org and build it without lua support ? I did it here in my Arch Linux and worked.

Also i have the patch for lua 5.2 issue .. will commit soon

Thanks

[abedra]

I'm talking about a fresh checkout of the git repository. There's no configure created there.

[brenosilva]

RIght.. looks like AM_PROG_AR is only available in automake >= 1.12

I added this in configure.ac (After AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE):
m4_ifdef([AM_PROG_AR], [AM_PROG_AR])

and removed the -Werror.

Looks fixed. Can you try and report ?

[abedra]

Those changes fix it for me. I didn't see them checked in, so I just did it on my local.

[brenosilva]

Applied

[abedra]

Thanks! My main driver for getting this working is due to GitHub removing the downloads feature. I'm changing all of my scripts to just check the project out and build it from there.

[brenosilva]

Yeah, we are not expecting this.
Starting from 2.7.2 (will be released soon) we will host the tarball in modsecurity.org