Error installing watchman on Ubuntu 16.04

Question

git clone https://github.com/facebook/watchman.git
cd watchman/
git checkout v4.7.0
sudo apt-get install -y autoconf automake build-essential python-dev libtool libssl-dev
./autogen.sh 
./configure 
make
sudo make install

At the make step, I am getting the following error, which I assume means I cannot proceed with sudo make install.

make  all-am
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/jcovingt/watchman'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'thirdparty/tap.cpp', needed by 
'thirdparty/libtap_a-tap.o'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/jcovingt/watchman'
Makefile:869: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

Go to that folder and make sure this tap.cpp exist! – George Udosen Oct 12 '17 at 19:09 — George Udosen, Oct 12 '17 at 19:09
Of course! :-/ And...it does not. – jerome Oct 13 '17 at 00:34 — jerome, Oct 13 '17 at 00:34

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 25 '19 at 19:15

User wez wrote on git about old version problem:

Sounds like you had previously built an old version in that clone of the repo. You can resolve this by running git clean -dfx to nuke all generated state, then re-run the installation instructions.

Take a look on:> https://github.com/facebook/watchman/issues/542

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 13 '17 at 00:40

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It's fine, I just deleted the folder, re-cloned, and it worked just fine. I think I was running into issues trying to install v4.9.0. Installing at v4.7.0 seems ok.

answered Oct 13 '17 at 00:40

jerome

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For Ubuntu 17.10, also had to sudo apt-get install pkg-config, and use the aforementioned v4.9.0. – jerome Oct 31 '17 at 02:43

Error installing watchman on Ubuntu 16.04

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