Re: ltconfig fails during 'configure'

[Lars J. Aas]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 01:11:45PM -0500, Robert Boehne wrote:
: It seems that every
: time I try to configure, ltconfig fails because it doesn't
: get $host set.  Here's the message from configure:
: <snip>
: checking whether ln -s works... yes
: ltconfig: you must specify a host type if you use `--no-verify'
: Try `ltconfig --help' for more information.
: configure: error: libtool configure failed

This problem disappears if you invoke AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM in
configure.in before AC_PROG_LIBTOOL.

  Lars J