"required file `./ltmain.sh' not found" ?

[Jules Colding]

Hi,

I'm trying to fix a script which checks out a subversion repository  
and builds it. Unfortunately I get this:

autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing -- 
warnings=all
configure.ac:58: installing `./config.guess'
configure.ac:58: installing `./config.sub'
configure.ac:27: installing `./install-sh'
configure.ac:58: required file `./ltmain.sh' not found
configure.ac:27: installing `./missing'
src/OCI/Makefile.am: installing `./depcomp'
Makefile.am: installing `./INSTALL'
autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1


Consequently the build fails. That guilty part of the script looks  
like this:

export LORICA_BUILD_DIR="$(pwd)/lorica"
(
    svn co svn+ssh://address@hidden/home/svn/lorica/trunk  
$LORICA_BUILD_DIR

    cd $LORICA_BUILD_DIR && autoreconf --warnings=all --force -- 
verbose --install
    exit $?
)
wait

The 'autoreconf' command is really part of a bigger bootstrap script,  
but just using autoreconf directly gives exactly the same outcome. The  
strange thing is that if I go down into the svn checkout directory and  
executes the command there, then it works?

Any ideas??


Thanks,
  jules