Tesseract: Configure raising syntax error, with autoconf-archive

Created on 21 Mar 2017 · 12Comments · Source: tesseract-ocr/tesseract

Getting the famous :

./configure: line 4250: syntax error near unexpected token `-mavx,'
./configure: line 4250: `AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG(-mavx, avx=true, avx=false)'

However, actually read the doc and googled around, and i do have the autoconf-archive package installed ><

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Jenkyrados

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Did you run ./autogen.sh _after_ the installation of autoconf-archive?

stweil on 21 Mar 2017

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Did you run ./autogen.sh _after_ the installation of autoconf-archive?

stweil on 21 Mar 2017

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That was it. Thanks!

Jenkyrados on 21 Mar 2017

Did you run ./autogen.sh after the installation of autoconf-archive? (see also comment above)

stweil on 5 Sep 2017

https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki/Compiling#macos

amitdo on 5 Sep 2017

for the life of god I can't manage to install or compile "autoconf-archive" on Amazon Linux AMI (it has yum, not apt-get).
Can anyone point me to instruction about how to install it?

amitm02 on 22 Nov 2017

https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/faqs/

Q: How do I enable the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository?

Read the answer.

amitdo on 22 Nov 2017

thanks @amitdo, but no luck:

[ec2-user@ip-172-31-31-253 ~]$ sudo yum install autoconf-archive --enablerepo=epel
Loaded plugins: priorities, update-motd, upgrade-helper
1039 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
No package autoconf-archive available.
Error: Nothing to do

amitm02 on 23 Nov 2017

@amitdo @amitm02 I had the same problem. I could not install autoconf-archive via yum, even after enabling the epel-repo. I resorted to compiling autoconf-archive myself, which allowed me to compile tesseract on a current Amazon Linux AMI. Following are the steps:

Download autoconf-archive source & compile (http://babyname.tips/mirrors/gnu/autoconf-archive/?C=M;O=D)

cd /tmp
wget http://babyname.tips/mirrors/gnu/autoconf-archive/autoconf-archive-2017.09.28.tar.xz
tar xf autoconf-archive-2017.09.28.tar.xz 
cd autoconf-archive-2017.09.28
./configure && make && make install 

# copy the generated macros to /usr/share/aclocal/, such that autogen.sh can find them
cp ./m4/* /usr/share/aclocal/

Download and install tesseract (given you already have leptonica)

cd /tmp
git clone https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract.git
cd tesseract
./autogen.sh
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=... LIBLEPT_HEADERSDIR=...  \
    ./configure --prefix=... --with-extra-includes=... --with-extra-libraries=... 
make && make install

Hope this helps.