Tesseract 3.01 won't build with automake 1.11.2

[dershow]

I am trying to upgrade tesseract 3.00_2 to 3.01_0 and I get a build error:

--->  Computing dependencies for tesseract
--->  Fetching archive for tesseract
--->  Attempting to fetch tesseract-3.01_0.darwin_10.x86_64.tgz from http://packages.macports.org/tesseract
--->  Fetching tesseract
--->  Attempting to fetch tesseract-3.01.tar.gz from http://distfiles.macports.org/tesseract
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for tesseract
--->  Extracting tesseract
--->  Applying patches to tesseract
--->  Configuring tesseract
Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: automake failure: shell command failed (see log for details)
Log for tesseract is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_textproc_tesseract/tesseract/main.log
Error: Unable to upgrade port: 1
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>

I have attached the log file as well

[dershow]

Log file

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Yes, unfortunately between the time we developed the patch to update the port to 3.01, and the time I committed it, a new version of automake 1.11.2 was released which tesseract does not like. As a workaround for now, you could downgrade to automake 1.11.1.

[markemer (Mark Anderson)]

I wonder if automake 2.65 would work? I'll give that a try tonight.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

2.65 is a version of autoconf, not of automake. autoconf is not the problem; automake is. As I mentioned above, downgrading to automake 1.11.1 works around the problem.

[markemer (Mark Anderson)]

Ok, it appears if you run autogen.sh it will create a proper configure and build. I think the aclocal script was what was clogging it up. Although autogen also runs glibtoolize. Should we maybe keep a configure of our own someplace, or should we re-run the whole deal?

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

If we can possibly avoid having to maintain our own configure script, or a complicated patch to theirs, that would be best. Running autogen.sh would be great. We could also investigate "use_autoreconf yes".

[fleason (Fred Leason)]

Cc Me!

[yaseppochi (Stephen J. Turnbull)]

autogen.sh seems to have worked for me (cut/paste from bash history):

  551  pushd ~/src/MacPorts/dports/textproc/tesseract/work/tesseract-3.01/
  552  ls
  553  less autogen.sh 
  554  ./autogen.sh 
  555  sudo ./autogen.sh 
  556  pushd
  557  sudo port -u upgrade tesseract

with output from port

--->  p5.12-locale-gettext is replaced by p5.12-locale-gettext
--->  Computing dependencies for tesseract
--->  Configuring tesseract
--->  Building tesseract
--->  Staging tesseract into destroot
--->  Installing tesseract @3.01_0
--->  Cleaning tesseract
--->  Computing dependencies for tesseract
--->  Deactivating tesseract @3.00_2+eng
--->  Cleaning tesseract
--->  Activating tesseract @3.01_0
--->  Cleaning tesseract
--->  Uninstalling tesseract @3.00_2+eng
--->  Cleaning tesseract

N.B. I don't actually use tesseract yet so can't confirm the build actually works. :-/

Mac OS X 10.6.8
2.7 GHz Intel Core i7
port from svn (port.tcl at r83270, according to /opt/local/bin/port; built Nov 9, 2011)

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Has duplicate #32985.

Would somebody like to supply a patch?

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Actually, I got it: r89273

[markemer (Mark Anderson)]

Cool, I was just about to send something out. I'm still trying to bug them to include a proper configure with this package.