Re: aclocal AM_PROG_LIBTOOL not found in library HELP PLEASE.

[Gary V . Vaughan]

On Wednesday 25 April 2001  1:49 pm, address@hidden wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have installed gd-1.8.4 on solaris 2.8 host. Configure ran ok but I got
> an error when I ran make. Can someone suggest an answer?
>
> here is the error
>
> aclocal: configure.in: 8: macro `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' not found in library
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `aclocal.m4'
>
> I'm guessing it cannot find aclocal.m4, I have aclocal 1.2 installed but
> found that the aclocal.m4 file in the src directory says it was created by
> aclocal 1.4Do I need to upgrade?? Hoping I can tweak something.
>
> Could any answers be directed to me directly, I'm smothered in work at the
> moment. Thanks in advance

The bottom line is that there is a bug in the packaging of gd-1.8.4, which 
you should report to the appropriate forum.

If you don't mind messing with this stuff yourself, you should be able to 
rebootstrap the project yourself if you have similar versions of autoconf, 
automake and libtool to the ones used by the packager installed on your 
machine.  Be sure they are all installed to the same prefix (mixing /usr and 
/usr/local causes problems of its own).

It very much depends on how the packager designed the build for gd-1.8.4, but 
something along the lines of the following might get you up and running:

   $ aclocal
   $ libtoolize --force
   $ autoheader
   $ automake --add-missing --foreign
   $ autoconf

HTH,
        Gary.
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