[chef] Re: Newbie glitch w/autoconf on OSX Chef Server build

[Daniel DeLeo < >]

Did you find anything relevant in the github issues for the various homebrew repos?

This one looks a lot like what you reported: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-versions/issues/276

Good luck,

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Daniel DeLeo

On Friday, February 14, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Ross Mohan wrote:

Wise Chefs and other sword swallowers, 

Rank beginner question, feel free to delete now and move on. 

(Is there a chef newbie list -- call it sous-chef? -- I'd like to know about it....)

It's about building OSX version of Chef-Server, so involves homebrew (brew) as much as chef...

But...now that you've been fairly warned: here's the deal: 

1) Trying to roll my own on an i5 Sandybridge Macbook Air, Maverick 10.9

2) hundreds of things go well and no problem using Opscode's generous Chef server hosting, running knife, adding nodes, etc

3) yet, cannot roll my own local chef-server from source because...cannot make erlang. 

4) cannot make (brew) erlang because -- no matter what I do -- I get an otp_build error on line 372 for autoconf. 

5) Yes, autoconf is there, up-to-date (fresh Xcode v5 tools!), and yes it works. 

The error:

==> ./otp_build autoconf

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=== running autoconf in lib

./otp_build: line 372: autoconf: command not found

Autoconf is fine:

$ autoconf --version

autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.69

Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.​​​

Ideas welcomed...

Thanks, 

Ross