Re: fail to boostrap with CVS autoconf/automake

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Eric Blake wrote on Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 09:13:42PM CET:
> > Using latest CVS autoconf/automake I am encountering this sort of 
> > problem when bootstrapping/configuring libtool:
> > 
> > config.status: executing libtool commands
> > sed: can't read libltdl/config/ltmain.sh: No such file or directory
> > sed: can't read libltdl/config/ltmain.sh: No such file or directory
> > 
> > In fact, while running the bootstrap script, there are complaints 
> > about this "missing" file for every directory.
> 
> I've seen this when I run ./bootstrap on an already
> bootstrapped tree. 

Am I correct that both of you do in-tree (non-VPATH) builds?
Please try the patch below.

BTW, I'm pretty sure the `bootstrap' step needs a capable `make'
(last time I tried, GNU make and NetBSD make worked).

Cheers,
Ralf

        * bootstrap: always remove Makefile, to avoid triggering the
        autotools rebuild rules before autoreconf builds these.
        Reported by Bob Friesenhahn <address@hidden>.

Index: bootstrap
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/libtool/libtool/bootstrap,v
retrieving revision 1.73
diff -u -r1.73 bootstrap
--- bootstrap   20 Nov 2005 09:14:51 -0000      1.73
+++ bootstrap   7 Dec 2005 07:27:53 -0000
@@ -104,8 +104,8 @@
 
 # Whip up a dirty Makefile:
 makes='Makefile.am libltdl/Makefile.inc'
-test -f Makefile ||
-    $SED '/^if /,/^endif$/d;/^else$/,/^endif$/d;/^include /d' $makes > Makefile
+rm -f Makefile
+$SED '/^if /,/^endif$/d;/^else$/,/^endif$/d;/^include /d' $makes > Makefile
 
 # Building distributed files from configure is bad for automake, so we
 # generate them here, and have Makefile rules to keep them up to date.