On Wednesday 11 July 2001 1:17 am, Tim Mooney wrote:
> In regard to: [Announce] libtool-1.4b, Gary V. Vaughan said (at 12:17am
on...:
> >The most important user-visible changes since release 1.4 follow:
> >
> >New in 1.4b: 2001-07-09
> >* Now bootstraps with autoconf-2.50 and automake-1.4-p4.
>
> If I grab the tarball from alpha.gnu.org and untar it and then
>
> ./bootstrap
No need to bootstrap it yourself unless you fetch from CVS. The tarballs we
release are all pre-bootstrapped with a suitable version of autoconf and
automake.
> ./configure
> gmake
Don't forget that the make process is recursive, so you also need to `export
MAKE=gmake' for the submakes to be called correctly.
> it starts out by doing a recheck:
>
> /bin/ksh ./config.status --recheck
Perhaps there is a broken macro in autoconf or libtool with respect to ksh?
Can you retry with bash as the CONFIG_SHELL and see if that works?
> which runs:
>
> running /bin/ksh ./configure --prefix=/local/gnu --exec-prefix=/local/gnu
> --enable-ltdl-install --no-create --no-recursion
Since we eliminated ltconfig before libtool-1.4, the reconfigure is normal
after running the bootstrap script, since bootstrapping libtool requires two
passes through configure, the first generates the Makefile (which can then
make ltmain.sh from ltmain.in), and the second makes the libtool script from
ltmain.sh.
> and I eventually see:
>
> configure: creating libtool
> appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool
> checking whether the cxx linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries...
> yes ./configure[7903]: syntax error at line 1 : `COPYING' unexpected
>
> then, when it dives into libltdl, it does a recheck, and I eventually see:
>
> configure: creating libtool
> appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool
> checking whether the cxx linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries...
> yes ./configure[8082]: syntax error at line 1 : `Makefile' unexpected
Alphabetically, COPYING and Makefile are exactly the second files in their
respective directories, which makes me think that the quoting in the new tags
code is not robust to the version of ksh you are running... or possibly the
version of /bin/sh configure re-execs itself with. If you can prove this
somehow, we might be able to beat out a workaround for the next release.
> I'm using autoconf 2.50 and automake 1.4-p4. Are the syntax errors from
> configure something peculiar about my environment, or do other people see
> them too?
Presuming that none of my suggestions above is the cause, it looks as though
you have misinstalled one of the autotools...
This is what I get:
$ wget ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-1.4b.tar.gz
...
$ tar zxf libtool-1.4b
$ cd libtool-1.4b
$ ./configure --version
libtool configure 1.4b
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.50a
Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This configure script is free software; the Free Software Foundation
gives unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it.
$ ./configure
...
$ make
...
$ make check
...
===================
All 96 tests passed
===================
And just to double check (note that the `a' suffix on the version numbers is
because I have slightly newer than release versions built from CVS -- I hope
that small difference isn't why you have errors though):
$ autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.50a
Written by David J. MacKenzie.
Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
$ automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.4-p4a
Copyright (C) 1999, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Written by Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
$ ksh -c 'echo $KSH_VERSION'
@(#)PD KSH v5.2.14 99/07/13.2
$ ksh ./bootstrap
autoheader: config-h.in is unchanged
$ CONFIG_SHELL=/usr/bin/ksh SHELL=/usr/bin/ksh ksh ./configure
...
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: config.h is unchanged
$ SHELL=/usr/bin/ksh make clean && make && make check
...
===================
All 96 tests passed
===================
HTH,
Gary.
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