M4 Conan 2.0 compatibility

recipes/m4/all/conanfile.py

@@ -6,12 +6,14 @@
 from conan.tools.microsoft import is_msvc, unix_path
 from conan.tools.scm import Version
 import os
+import shutil
 
-required_conan_version = ">=1.52.0"
+required_conan_version = ">=1.55.0"
 
 
 class M4Conan(ConanFile):
     name = "m4"
+    package_type = "application"
     description = "GNU M4 is an implementation of the traditional Unix macro processor"
     topics = ("macro", "preprocessor")
     homepage = "https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/"
@@ -34,9 +36,9 @@ def package_id(self):
 
     def build_requirements(self):
         if self._settings_build.os == "Windows":
-            if not self.conf.get("tools.microsoft.bash:path", default=False, check_type=bool):
-                self.tool_requires("msys2/cci.latest")
             self.win_bash = True
+            if not self.conf.get("tools.microsoft.bash:path", check_type=str):
+                self.tool_requires("msys2/cci.latest")
 
     def source(self):
         get(self, **self.conan_data["sources"][self.version],
@@ -87,11 +89,12 @@ def generate(self):
 
     def _patch_sources(self):
         apply_conandata_patches(self)
-        # dummy file for configure
-        help2man = os.path.join(self.source_folder, "help2man")
-        save(self, help2man, "#!/usr/bin/env bash\n:")
-        if os.name == "posix":
-            os.chmod(help2man, os.stat(help2man).st_mode | 0o111)
+        if shutil.which("help2man") == None:
+            # dummy file for configure
+            help2man = os.path.join(self.source_folder, "help2man")
+            save(self, help2man, "#!/usr/bin/env bash\n:")
+            if os.name == "posix":
+                os.chmod(help2man, os.stat(help2man).st_mode | 0o111)
 
     def build(self):
         self._patch_sources()
@@ -100,10 +103,15 @@ def build(self):
         autotools.make()
 
     def package(self):
-        copy(self, "COPYING", src=self.source_folder, dst=os.path.join(self.package_folder, "licenses"))
+        if os.path.islink(os.path.join(self.source_folder, "COPYING")):
+            # Use mkdir and copyfile when "COPYING" is a symlink as it is when building with source from Git repo
+            os.mkdir(os.path.join(self.package_folder, "licenses"))
+            shutil.copyfile(os.path.join(self.source_folder, os.readlink(os.path.join(self.source_folder, "COPYING"))),
+                         os.path.join(self.package_folder, "licenses", "COPYING"))
+        else:
+            copy(self, "COPYING", src=self.source_folder, dst=os.path.join(self.package_folder, "licenses"))
         autotools = Autotools(self)
-        # TODO: replace by autotools.install() once https://github.com/conan-io/conan/issues/12153 fixed
-        autotools.install(args=[f"DESTDIR={unix_path(self, self.package_folder)}"])
+        autotools.install()
         rmdir(self, os.path.join(self.package_folder, "share"))
 
     def package_info(self):

recipes/m4/all/test_package/conanfile.py

@@ -32,5 +32,5 @@ def test(self):
         self.run(f"m4 -R {self.source_folder}/frozen.m4f {self.source_folder}/test.m4")
 
         output = StringIO()
-        self.run(f"m4 -P {self._m4_input_path}", output=output)
+        self.run(f"m4 -P {self._m4_input_path}", output)
         assert "Harry, Jr. met Sally" in output.getvalue()