Can't build cava because of broken configure.ac

[Alxhr0]

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Describe the bug

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Can't build cava git because of a configure.ac error

libtoolize: Consider adding 'AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS([m4])' to configure.ac,
libtoolize: and rerunning libtoolize and aclocal.
configure.ac:306: error: _AX_CHECK_GL_MANUAL_LIBS_GENERIC: argument must not be empty
lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:690: _AS_IF_ELSE is expanded from...
lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:697: AS_IF is expanded from...
/usr/share/aclocal/ax_check_gl.m4:187: _AX_CHECK_GL_MANUAL_LIBS_GENERIC is expanded from...
lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:595: AS_CASE is expanded from...
/usr/share/aclocal/ax_check_gl.m4:253: AX_CHECK_GL is expanded from...
lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:697: AS_IF is expanded from...
lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:697: AS_IF is expanded from...
configure.ac:306: the top level`

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Git clone the latest git commit
2. Try to build it without any flags

Workaround

AS_IF([test "x$enable_output_sdl" != "no"], [
AC_CHECK_LIB(SDL2,SDL_Init, have_sdl=yes, have_sdl=no)
    if [[ $have_sdl = "yes" ]] ; then
      LIBS="$LIBS -lSDL2"
      CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -DSDL"

      dnl ######################
      dnl checking for opengl (only if we know we have sdl)
      dnl ######################
      AC_ARG_ENABLE([output_sdl_glsl],
        AS_HELP_STRING([--disable-output-sdl-glsl],
          [do not include support for output with sdl_glsl])
      )
      AS_IF([test "x$enable_output_sdl_glsl" != "no"], [
             m4_ifdef([AX_CHECK_GL], [
                       AX_CHECK_GL(have_opengl=yes, have_opengl=no)
                       ], [
                           AC_MSG_NOTICE([You need to install the autoconf archives to check for opengl. Remember to re-run autogen.sh.])
                           have_opengl=no
                           ])
      if [[ $have_opengl = "yes" ]] ; then
        LIBS="$LIBS $GL_LIBS"
        CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -DSDL_GLSL $GL_CFLAGS"
      fi

      if [[ $have_opengl = "no" ]] ; then
        AC_MSG_NOTICE([INFO: building without sdl_glsl (opengl) support])
      fi
      ],
        [have_opengl=no]
      )
    fi

    if [[ $have_sdl = "no" ]] ; then
      AC_MSG_NOTICE([INFO: building without sdl support])
    fi
],
  [have_sdl=no]
)

Removing this from configure.ac allows the autogen.sh script to run and Cava builds fine then

Expected behavior

Cava should build fine

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• OS: NixOS
• Version: 25.05 Unstable

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[huynhhoanglong]

I got same issues

[karlstav]

duplicate #594