bootstrapping CVS libtool

2003-11-22 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
I am trying to get the current CVS libtool properly bootstrapped. The libtool bootstrap script says that GNU autoconf 2.58 and GNU automake 1.8 are required. There is no such thing as automake 1.8 yet. I retrieved a package called automake-1.7d from alpha.gnu.org but it is not clear what it reall

Re: bootstrapping CVS libtool

2003-11-22 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
It seems that 'cvs update' was not sufficent to update libtool. A fresh CVS checkout was required. I now have a libtool script. The question as to the required auto* tools and libtool release expectations remains. Bob On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > I am trying to get the curren

configuring libltdl

2003-11-22 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
It seems to me that for packages which embed libtool and use libltdl, it is very trivial for the package's configure script to also configure libltdl. This is *much* more efficient time-wise and space-wise than a recursive configure. The fact that the libtool package uses a recursive configure se

Re: bootstrapping CVS libtool

2003-11-22 Thread Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>>> "Bob" == Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Bob> I retrieved a package called automake-1.7d from Bob> alpha.gnu.org but it is not clear what it really is (the Bob> NEWS file is extended over the one from 1.7.9). You might want to join [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/

Re: bootstrapping CVS libtool

2003-11-22 Thread Patrick Welche
On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 10:41:15AM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: .. > Running configure still does not result in a libtool script so I get > this error: > > /home/bfriesen/src/gnu/libtool' > CONFIG_FILES= CONFIG_HEADERS= CONFIG_COMMANDS=libtool > /usr/local/bin/bash ./config.status > config.statu

Re: bootstrapping CVS libtool

2003-11-22 Thread Patrick Welche
On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 10:18:03PM +, Patrick Welche wrote: > On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 10:41:15AM -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > .. > > Running configure still does not result in a libtool script so I get > > this error: > > > > /home/bfriesen/src/gnu/libtool' > > CONFIG_FILES= CONFIG_HEADERS

Re: bootstrapping CVS libtool

2003-11-22 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sat, 22 Nov 2003, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > > What package releases will be required to support the forthcoming > libtool release? Thanks to Gary's 'make dist' fix, I was able to make a test libtool distribution under FreeBSD using the latest CVS autoconf and automake. I then extracted this pack