open-vm-tools 12.5.4 configure: line 23752: enable_vgauth: command not found

[ggg-315]

Describe the bug

Check whether the syntax of [if test "$withval" = "no"; then enable_vgauth = "no"; fi] in the open-vm-tools/configure.ac file contains an extra space because the following error is reported during compilation: configure: line 23752: enable_vgauth: command not found

Reproduction steps

1.Download the source code to the local host.
2.Run the autoreconf -i command to generate the configure file.
3.Run the following command: bash configure --enable-deploypkg=no --without-x --without-xmlsec1 CFLAGS= '-s -Wl,-z,relro,-z,now -fstack-protector-all -fPIC -fPIE -pie -Wl,-z,noexecstack -fuse-ld=lld'
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Expected behavior

The compilation is expected to succeed.

Additional context

The stable-12.5.2 version is normal. After the stable-12.5.4 version is switched to the stable-12.5.4 version, a compilation error is reported. No compilation options are changed, but the source code of the new version is downloaded for compilation.

[johnwvmw]

I find this intriguing since we do continuous integration of open-vm-tools builds on multiple Linux releases and have not encountered this issue.

Please provide the OS release and version on which you have seen this issue.

Also I assume from your mention of "stable-12.5.2" and "stable-12.5.4" that you are accessing the files by means of one of the "Source code (zip) or (tar.gz)" bundles?

Thank for bringing this to our attention and providing the requested information