Prefer system distributed binaries/libraries. It seems like the image has a /usr/local/bin/autoconf installed, which doesn't recognize/work with the yum installed libtools. Putting distributed binaries/libraries first solves the problem
diff --git a/python/release/wheel/protobuf_optimized_pip.sh b/python/release/wheel/protobuf_optimized_pip.sh index 469661a..064d1d2 100755 --- a/python/release/wheel/protobuf_optimized_pip.sh +++ b/python/release/wheel/protobuf_optimized_pip.sh
@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ sed -i '/AC_PROG_OBJC/d' configure.ac sed -i 's/conformance\/Makefile//g' configure.ac +# Use the /usr/bin/autoconf and related tools to pick the correct aclocal macros +export PATH="/usr/bin:$PATH" + # Build protoc ./autogen.sh CXXFLAGS="-fPIC -g -O2" ./configure