libtool: drop unused auto* dependencies

Autoreconf was initially added in e44dd84664f ("libtool2: macOS 11
support") for configure patches. The patches were removed since 2.4.7
release. Let's drop these dependencies to make boostrap tree leaner.

The diff of bootstrap tree before and after the change:

    $ nix-store --query --graph $(nix-instantiate -A stdenv) |
        fgrep ' -> ' | awk '{print $3}' | sort -u |
        sed 's/"[0-9a-z]\{32\}-/"/g' | sort > before

    $ nix-store --query --graph $(nix-instantiate -A stdenv) |
        fgrep ' -> ' | awk '{print $3}' | sort -u |
        sed 's/"[0-9a-z]\{32\}-/"/g' | sort > after

    $ diff -U0 before after

    --- before
    +++ after
    @@ -64,2 +63,0 @@
    -"help2man-1.49.2.drv"
    -"help2man-1.49.2.drv"
    @@ -77 +74,0 @@
    -"libxcrypt-4.4.33.drv"
    @@ -88,4 +84,0 @@
    -"perl-5.36.0.drv"
    -"perl-5.36.0.drv"
    -"perl5.36.0-gettext-1.07.drv"
    -"perl5.36.0-gettext-1.07.drv"

This removes 2 of 3 builds of `perl` and `help2man` dependencies.

Co-authored-by: Adam Joseph <54836058+amjoseph-nixpkgs@users.noreply.github.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/libtool/libtool2.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/libtool/libtool2.nix
index 8625a421af64f..a2c58010eff7c 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/libtool/libtool2.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/libtool/libtool2.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, fetchurl, fetchpatch, autoconf, automake, m4, perl, help2man
+{ lib, stdenv, fetchurl, fetchpatch, m4
 , runtimeShell
 , file
 }:
@@ -23,28 +23,22 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   #   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autotools-announce/2022-03/msg00000.html
   FILECMD = "${file}/bin/file";
 
-  # Normally we'd use autoreconfHook, but that includes libtoolize.
-  postPatch = ''
-    aclocal -I m4
-    automake
-    autoconf
-
-    pushd libltdl
-    aclocal -I ../m4
-    automake
-    autoconf
-    popd
-  '' +
+  postPatch =
   # libtool commit da2e352735722917bf0786284411262195a6a3f6 changed
   # the shebang from `/bin/sh` (which is a special sandbox exception)
   # to `/usr/bin/env sh`, meaning that we now need to patch shebangs
   # in libtoolize.in:
   ''
     substituteInPlace libtoolize.in       --replace '#! /usr/bin/env sh' '#!${runtimeShell}'
+    # avoid help2man run after 'libtoolize.in' update
+    touch doc/libtoolize.1
   '';
 
   strictDeps = true;
-  nativeBuildInputs = [ autoconf automake help2man m4 perl ];
+  # As libtool is an early bootstrap dependency try hard not to
+  # add autoconf and automake or help2man dependencies here. That way we can
+  # avoid pulling in perl and get away with just an `m4` depend.
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ m4 file ];
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ m4 file ];
 
   # Don't fixup "#! /bin/sh" in Libtool, otherwise it will use the