bin/get_colpack.sh Script Error about cppad HOT 6 CLOSED

The entire input and output in the shell is provided.

debianuser@debian:~/cppad.git$ bin/get_colpack.sh

prefix=/home/debianuser/cppad.git/build/prefix
Executing get_colpack.sh
cd external
cd colpack.git
git checkout --quiet v1.0.10
./configure --prefix=/home/debianuser/cppad.git/build/prefix --libdir=/home/debianuser/cppad.git/build
/prefix/lib64 --enable-static --enable-shared
bin/get_colpack.sh: line 67: ./configure: No such file or directory

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It appears that you do not have the autotools installed on your system and colpack requires that. There error messaging for this case should be better.

Looking just below line 118 in
https://github.com/coin-or/CppAD/blob/master/bin/get_colpack.sh
we see

echo_eval cd $package.git
echo_eval git checkout --quiet v$version
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
if which autoconf >& /dev/null
then
   echo_eval libtoolize
   echo_eval autoreconf --install --force
fi

Feel free to post a pull request that gives a better error message. Note that colpack is optional and can be left out (while including other optional packages); see package_prefix on
https://cppad.readthedocs.io/latest/cmake.html#package-prefix

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Thanks - That was helpful. I'll create a pull request with a better error message. The README.md may be a bit misleading as indicated in the following annotation:

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I created the following merge request:

#190

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colpack uses the autotools to do it's install.
CppAD uses cmake to build its tests and do its install.
CppAD can use colpack (if it is installed).

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Thanks for the explanation. I see that you reviewed and merged my pull request. Thanks. I'm closing this issue.

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