Re: libtool: -e: command not found

[Brett H. Williams]

On Aug 29, Paco Brufal wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>       I'm using automake+autoconf in one of my programs. I upgraded to
> last version of libtool, autoconf and automake last week, and now I can't
> compile my program. The error is:
> 
> /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link gcc  -g -O2  -o gtk-agenda -L../libsmtp
> -lsmtp -L../libsimpleparser -lsimpleparser main.o support.o interface.o
> callbacks.o ddbb_conn.o read_config.o -L/usr/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk
> -lgdk -rdynamic -lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lm -lpq
> -lmysqlclient  
> ../libtool: line 1: s%^.*/%%: No existe el fichero o el directorio # (file 
> not found)
> ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found
> ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found
> ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found
> ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found
> ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found
> ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found
> ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found
> ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found
> ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found
> ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found
> ../libtool: line 1: -e: command not found
> mkdir /.libs
> mkdir: cannot create directory /.libs': Permission denied

[snip]

I ran into this last week.

export SED=sed

or equivalent will solve this.  I'm not sure where the root cause is but this
will get you going.