Missing autoconf/automake in Xcode 4.3?

Question

After I purged Xcode 4.2 and installed Xcode 4.3 from App Store, I can not find autotools (automake/autoconf) through the command line. I've tried to run find /Applications/Xcode.app -name 'automake', but apparently they are not there..

Does anyone knows what is Apple's point to remove these essential toolsets?

Answer 1

They moved them in 4.3 into a separate download afaik.

Try install the command line tools via Settings -> download.

Answer 2

For what it is worth- (and others stumbling onto this problem like I did) in the latest XCode (4.6, 4.5 and friends) autoconf is not even available in the command line tools.

I have manually installed just autoconf and a few friends, but still have trouble with some of the automake-ish software out there.

See http://jsdelfino.blogspot.com/2012/08/autoconf-and-automake-on-mac-os-x.html for a how-to to manually install.

Answer 3

I am running Mountain Lion and have XCode 4.5.2 installed. I have installed autoconf using MacPorts:

sudo port install autoconf

I have not tried but I am sure that sudo brew install autoconf should also work for those that prefer Homebrew.

Answer 4

Are you certain your PATH hasn't been corrupted? I've got the auto-tools in /usr/bin on my machine:

> ls -lah /usr/bin/auto*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    13K 16 May  2011 /usr/bin/autoconf
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   8.2K 16 May  2011 /usr/bin/autoheader
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    30K 16 May  2011 /usr/bin/autom4te
-rwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   227K 16 May  2011 /usr/bin/automake
-rwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   227K 16 May  2011 /usr/bin/automake-1.10
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    73K  3 Feb 21:55 /usr/bin/automator
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    20K 16 May  2011 /usr/bin/autoreconf
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    17K 16 May  2011 /usr/bin/autoscan
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    33K 16 May  2011 /usr/bin/autoupdate

Edit: it appears I did still have 4.2 on my machine. So this above is probably not helpful in the least.

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You could try using the autoconf package from homebrew. It does not appear to be a keg that's available by default with homebrew, but you can still get it from here by placing the following in to /usr/local/Library/Formula/autoconf.rb:

require 'formula'

class Autoconf < Formula
  url 'http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.13.tar.gz'
  homepage 'http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/'
  md5 '9de56d4a161a723228220b0f425dc711'

  def install
    system "./configure", "--program-suffix=213",
                          "--prefix=#{prefix}",
                          "--infodir=#{info}"
    system "make install"
  end
end