Re: autoreconf thinks I'm not using libtool

[John Calcote]

Hi Peter,

On 3/14/2010 10:38 AM, Peter Johansson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I experience that autoreconf, for some reason, thinks I'm not using 
> libtool. I slimmed down my configure.ac to the following:
>
> AC_INIT([1.0], [hello])
> AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign])
> AC_LANG([C++])
> AC_PROG_CXX
> AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
> AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])
> AC_OUTPUT
>
> and when I issue `autoreconf -isvf' I get
>
> autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
> autoreconf: running: aclocal --force
> autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
> autoreconf: running: /opt/local/bin/autoconf --force
> configure.ac:5: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use 
> m4_pattern_allow.
>       See the Autoconf documentation.
> autoreconf: /opt/local/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1

Here's my output using the same configure.ac file:

$ autoreconf -isvf
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: running: libtoolize --force
libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in `.'.
libtoolize: linking file `./ltmain.sh'
libtoolize: Consider adding `AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])' to configure.ac and
libtoolize: rerunning libtoolize, to keep the correct libtool macros 
in-tree.
libtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am.
autoreconf: running: /usr/local/bin/autoconf --force
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Autoheader
autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --force-missing
configure.ac:5: installing `./config.guess'
configure.ac:5: installing `./config.sub'
configure.ac:2: installing `./install-sh'
configure.ac:2: installing `./missing'
autoreconf: Leaving directory `.'

I noticed from your output that autoconf is found in /opt/local/bin. Is 
there any way that libtool could be "not found" in that path? I ask 
because the error looks sort of like autoreconf thinks that libtool 
isn't installed.

John