Re: how to break out of the libtool rathole ?

[Peter Johansson]

On 07/18/2013 01:59 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> 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.

That only proves that you cannot autoreconf libtool without libtool. It 
does NOT prove that you cannot "./configure; make" libtool from a 
tarball hence it does NOT prove any breakage.




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