On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Christian Egli <christian.e...@sbszh.ch> wrote: > Hi all > > I recently migrated liblouis[1] to use gnulib. Everything works > marvelously for me. I can run autoreconf, configure and make and make > distcheck cleanly (I use automake 1.10.2, autoconf 2.63 and libtool > 2.2.6). However some of the co-developers are having problems compiling > the package with older versions of the tool chain. One error is > essentially as follows: > > [snip] > make[3]: Entering directory `/home/lrs/tmp/liblouis-gnulib/gnulib' > /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -std=gnu99 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H > -I. -I../liblouis -g -O2 -MT progname.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/progname.Tpo > -c -o progname.lo progname.c > ../libtool: line 833: X--tag=CC: command not found > ../libtool: line 866: libtool: ignoring unknown tag : command not found > ../libtool: line 833: X--mode=compile: command not found > [snip] > > The dev uses Fedora 10 with libtool-1.5.26, autoconf 2.63 and automake > 1.11. When googling for this problem it appears that some people have > had this same problem before and that it might be to do with libtoolize > not being invoked properly by autogen.sh and ultimately autoreconf. > Indeed if I compare the output of autogen.sh below with the one I'm > getting, it appears that libtoolize is not invoked with --install. Our > autogen.sh[2] script essentially just invokes autoreconf with the > options --force --install --verbose. Is this a problem of an old > autoreconf? I'm a bit stumped on how to solve this problem. I'd rather > not force all developers to upgrade to libtool 2.x. Below is a extensive > log of the output of autogen.sh, configure and make check.
Yeah, the important thing is that autoreconf/libtoolize be invoked with the --install option. Then when libtoolize is run again it will update it's support files (i.e., ltmain.sh). If you don't use autoreconf --install, aclocal.m4 will be updated anyway with the local libtool macros, but libtoolize will just do nothing since it would otherwise "install" files into your source tree. -- Dan _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
