version 1.6 tar compile fails on builtin oniguruma

[terefang]

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i had to do the following to make it work

tar -xvf jq-1.6.tar.gz
cd jq-1.6
cd modules/oniguruma
autoreconf -fi
cd ../..
./configure --with-oniguruma=builtin

[nobodyinperson]

modules/oniguruma is a git submodule. So when cloning the repository, git clone --recursive https://github.com/stedolan/jq is necessary to get that as well. Building then works after running autoreconf -fi in that submodule as you suggested. Thank you!

The docs should reflect that.

[lightmare]

@nobodyinperson docs won't fix this issue. It has nothing to do with oniguruma being a git submodule. The issue is not missing submodule sources. It is about the release source tarball, which does contain required sources under modules/oniguruma, but doesn't contain modules/oniguruma/configure script.

Because of that, the released sources cannot be built with just the usual ./configure && make

For me the issue is that I'm trying to build from tarball specifically because I need to avoid having to run autoreconf, because where I'm building, autoreconf on jq fails because of too old autoconf, and autoreconf on oniguruma fails because of too old automake.

[itchyny]

Same issue as #1872, we need to be careful in the next release.