RE: adding libraries and header file directories

[Jim Rainville]

Hi Ralf - 

I'm still struggling with this. I can link by executing the link
manually as you suggested for testing but I'm still having problems
automating it form autoconf/automake. The package I'm using only
supports up to automake 1.9 (that's the highest that is set in the
bootstrap script). But I modified the bootstrap script so that it would
check and use 1.10. When I run the bootstrap script I get the output
below. So, I have 3 questions:
1) Is there any way to set the --preserve-dup-deps flag with automake
1.9?
2) Why do I still get the error 'AM_LIBTOOLSFLAGS' not found in library?
3) What changes have to be made to go from 1.9 to 1.10?

Thanks for your help.
Jim



+ aclocal-1.10 -I m4
/usr/share/aclocal/xml-i18n-tools.m4:27: the serial number must appear
before any macro definition
configure.ac:80: warning: macro `AM_LIBTOOLFLAGS' not found in library
configure.ac:19: error: Autoconf version 2.60 or higher is required
/usr/share/aclocal-1.10/init.m4:103: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is expanded
from...
configure.ac:19: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 63
aclocal-1.10: autom4te failed with exit status: 63

-----Original Message-----
From: Ralf Wildenhues [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 9:22 AM
To: Jim Rainville
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: adding libraries and header file directories

Hello Jim,

* Jim Rainville wrote on Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 06:14:49PM CET:
> 
> I tried adding the --preserver-dup-deps flag in several different
ways.
> But for some reason it doesn't end up on the link line. I tried adding
> it to the front of the LD flags but I'm guessing this is a flag to
> libtool instead of to the linker. How do you add flags to libtool? Is
> there a special macro to do this?

If you are using Automake 1.10, then you can put this in LIBTOOLFLAGS
(as user) or AM_LIBTOOLFLAGS (as developer).

But just for testing, please go into the right directory and simply
issue the link command line manually, with --preserve-dup-deps added.
And post what happens.  Thing is, this switch isn't as "helpful" as
one would think at first, and I would like to know if that is the
case in your case or not.  :-)

If it's not, then we will look further.

Cheers,
Ralf