How to install "aclocal" on Alpine Linux

Problem:

When trying to build applications on Alpine Linux, you sometimes see messages like

./automake.sh: line 5: aclocal: not found

but when you try to apk install aclocal you see that the package can not be found:

fetch https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.17/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
fetch https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.17/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
ERROR: unable to select packages:
  aclocal (no such package):
    required by: world[aclocal]

Solution

aclocal is available from the automake package. Therefore, in order to fix the issue, you can run

apk install automake