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[gperf] build failure on OSX due to missing aclocal #47260

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Operating system

MacOS X arm64

Compiler

Clang 20.0

Steps to reproduce the behavior

vcpkg install gperf (this happened during qt5-base install)
The actual step that failed was: /opt/homebrew/bin/autoreconf -vfi

Failure logs

[cmake] Installing 1/6 gperf:[email protected]...
[cmake] Building gperf:[email protected]...
[cmake] /Users//.cache/vcpkg/registries/git-trees/d5c53333d7745d56f06cb3e014c7c424a66ef4a7: info: installing from git registry git+https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg@d5c53333d7745d56f06cb3e014c7c424a66ef4a7
[cmake] -- Using cached gperf-3.3.tar.gz
[cmake] -- Cleaning sources at /Users//Development/vcpkg/vcpkg/buildtrees/gperf/src/gperf-3-b814f52c10.clean. Use --editable to skip cleaning for the packages you specify.
[cmake] -- Extracting source /Users//Development/vcpkg/vcpkg/downloads/gperf-3.3.tar.gz
[cmake] -- Using source at /Users//Development/vcpkg/vcpkg/buildtrees/gperf/src/gperf-3-b814f52c10.clean

/opt/homebrew/bin/autoreconf -vfi
autoreconf: export WARNINGS=
autoreconf: Entering directory '.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using aclocal
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: configure.ac: adding subdirectory lib to autoreconf
autoreconf: Entering directory 'lib'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force
Can't exec "aclocal": No such file or directory at /opt/homebrew/Cellar/autoconf/2.72/share/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm line 299.
autoreconf: error: aclocal failed with exit status: 2

Additional context

Fix: brew install automake

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