Watchman: bash: ./configure: No such file or directory getting when ./configure run in terminal

[habeebrahmanpt]

xxxxxxxxxxx:/home/watchman$ ./configure
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory

[wez]

Please follow the instructions here:
https://facebook.github.io/watchman/docs/install.html#installing-from-source

[itarafath]

same issue,not fixed yet

[msmaromi]

After i ran ./autogen.sh the second time, the configure file was appear

[customcommander]

I had a similar issue but then I looked closer to the output of ./autogen.sh:

/var/watchman # ./autogen.sh 
libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in '.'.
libtoolize: linking file './ltmain.sh'
libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS, 'm4'.
libtoolize: linking file 'm4/libtool.m4'
libtoolize: linking file 'm4/ltoptions.m4'
libtoolize: linking file 'm4/ltsugar.m4'
libtoolize: linking file 'm4/ltversion.m4'
libtoolize: linking file 'm4/lt~obsolete.m4'
configure.ac:22: installing './compile'
configure.ac:3: installing './config.guess'
configure.ac:3: installing './config.sub'
configure.ac:4: installing './install-sh'
configure.ac:4: installing './missing'
Makefile.am: installing './depcomp'
parallel-tests: installing './test-driver'
pkg-config appears to be missing (not available to autoconf tools)
please install the pkg-config package for your system.

Last line says that I was missing a package. In my case all I had to do was to install pkgconfig on my system (Alpine):

apk add pkgconfig

YMMV of course.

[ronn]

Possible errors:

1. While running ./autogen.sh
   Error: your system lacks libtoolize
   Solution: sudo apt-get install libtool

After that, "./configure" worked! :)

Source: https://medium.com/@saurabh.friday/install-watchman-on-ubuntu-18-04-ba23c56eb23a