I was not able to repro the original issue. I find it unlikely that this is the solution to the original problem.

I was not able to repro the original issue. I find it unlikely that this is the solution to the original problem.

@JavierMatosD Here is the bash script to repro the original issue.

podman build -t vcpkg-libxcrypt -f - <<EOF; podman run --rm -it vcpkg-libxcrypt sh reproduce1.sh
FROM ubuntu:latest

ARG DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
  curl \
  g++ \
  git \
  make \
  unzip \
  zip \
  autoconf \
  automake \
  # libtool \
  pkg-config \
  && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

ENV PATH /vcpkg:$PATH

RUN git clone https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg \
  && cd /vcpkg \
  && bootstrap-vcpkg.sh

RUN bash -c 'echo -e "\
vcpkg install libxcrypt;\n\
cat /vcpkg/buildtrees/libxcrypt/autoconf-x64-linux-err.log;\n\
"' > reproduce1.sh

RUN bash -c 'echo -e "\
apt-get install -y libtool;\n\
vcpkg install libxcrypt;\n\
"' > reproduce2.sh

CMD ["/usr/bin/bash"]

EOF

# podman rmi vcpkg-libxcrypt:latest

I was not able to repro the original issue. I find it unlikely that this is the solution to the original problem.

@JavierMatosD Here is the bash script to repro the original issue.

podman build -t vcpkg-libxcrypt -f - <<EOF; podman run --rm -it vcpkg-libxcrypt sh reproduce1.sh
FROM ubuntu:latest

ARG DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
  curl \
  g++ \
  git \
  make \
  unzip \
  zip \
  autoconf \
  automake \
  # libtool \
  pkg-config \
  && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

ENV PATH /vcpkg:$PATH

RUN git clone https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg \
  && cd /vcpkg \
  && bootstrap-vcpkg.sh

RUN bash -c 'echo -e "\
vcpkg install libxcrypt;\n\
cat /vcpkg/buildtrees/libxcrypt/autoconf-x64-linux-err.log;\n\
"' > reproduce1.sh

RUN bash -c 'echo -e "\
apt-get install -y libtool;\n\
vcpkg install libxcrypt;\n\
"' > reproduce2.sh

CMD ["/usr/bin/bash"]

EOF

# podman rmi vcpkg-libxcrypt:latest

Thank you! I'll check this out :)

I failed to realize that the original issue is on linux. I was originally skeptical because vcpkg_configure_make already prints a message and fails if it doesn't find autoconf. But it seems the script only handle automake, libtool, and pkg-config on windows. I think these changes are good to go :)

In fact it is a shame that we pollute all ports with redundant instructions for Ubuntu, Fedora, Alpine, macOS ... while everything is in one place for Windows.