Re: Problem installing libtool

[Robby Griffin]

On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 01:34 PM, Daniel Cardenas wrote:

> I'm trying to install libtool 1.5 onto Mac OSX 10.2.6 following the
> instructions in the INSTALL doc, but "make install" (as root) fails 
> with the
> following:
>
> gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `/usr/bin/libtool': No such 
> file or
> directory
> make[1]: *** [libltdl.la] Error 1
> make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
>
>
> I stupidly removed libtool from /usr/bin/ hoping to replace the default
> libtool install with a fink libtool install, but I can't do that 
> either. How
> can I fix this?

I believe you'll need to reinstall the MacOS X developer tools to get 
that. Apple's /usr/bin/libtool is a completely different program from 
GNU libtool, being a platform-specific part of the toolchain for 
building shared libraries, rather than a platform-independent tool for 
building libraries in general. I think you'll find that GNU libtool 
indirectly needs to use Apple's /usr/bin/libtool, hence the error 
message.

        --Robby