Re: how to break out of the libtool rathole ?

[Dennis Clarke]

from the source tarball .. here is try number five : 

mimas$ sx ../src/libtool-2.4.2.tar.gz 
star: 1165 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 11929600 bytes = 11650.00k).
mimas$ mv libtool-2.4.2 libtool-2.4.2_SunOS5.8_sparcv9.005
mimas$ cd libtool-2.4.2_SunOS5.8_sparcv9.005

mimas$ autoreconf --verbose --force --install 
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I libltdl/m4
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: running: libtoolize --copy --force --ltdl
Can't exec "libtoolize": No such file or directory at 
/usr/local/share/autoconf/Autom4te/FileUtils.pm line 345, <GEN3> line 6.
autoreconf: failed to run libtoolize: No such file or directory
autoreconf: libtoolize is needed because this package uses Libtool
mimas$ pwd
/usr/local/build/libtool-2.4.2_SunOS5.8_sparcv9.005
mimas$ 

that is proof enough for me .. libtool is broken. 

may need to get a rev from years ago and see what happens.