re: libtool: -e: command not found

[Dan Kegel]

On 29 Aug 2002, address@hidden wrote:
> >         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
>
> [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.

I just ran into it, too.  It comes from a mismatched libtool.m4.

Kaffe, for instance, embeds a copy of libtool.m4 as filename acinclude.m4.
FWIW, the procedure for updating kaffe to use CVS libtool appears to be
something like:
  cd kaffe-1.0.7
  cp /newlibtool/share/aclocal/libtool.m4 acinclude.m4
  /newlibtool/bin/libtoolize -c -f --ltdl
  patch kaffe/kaffe/Makefile.am to link app with @LIBLTDL@ per the libtool docs
  sh developer/autogen.sh
and possibly also apply the patch I posted to bring kaffe up to autoconf2.5x.

'Course, I haven't actually gotten it working with the new libtool yet,
and I'm generally a libtool nincompoop, so take that with a grain of salt :-)

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Dan Kegel
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