Re: installing automake 1.9.5 and now libtool isn't working properly.

[Dale Walsh]

On Jan 13, 2006, at 02:44 , Dale Walsh wrote:

> On Jan 13, 2006, at 02:20 , Harlan Stenn wrote:
>
> > I have always used modules.sourceforge.net for this problem, but that
> > also needs a useful "ports" tree to handle installing that way.  You
> > might try looking at http://staff.e.kth.se/mpkg/ as a starting point.
>
> I couldn't figure out how to use mpkg or install from them (even  
> from the directions) and RPM's don't work in Mac OSX.
>
> > The FreeBSD /usr/ports stuff has another way of handling different
> > versions of the auto* tools.
>
> I'd gladly install a pile of software if I knew what to install to  
> resolve the issue.
>
> Since the issue mainly affects libtool and I've been unsuccessful  
> in determining what Apple does (if they do anything special) to get  
> 1.6 to work I was wondering how libtool is tied in to automake and  
> was wondering how to get it working with 1.9.5 since this seems to  
> be what;s failing.

Digging a little further, it seems that the file "libtool" generated   
when I use automake 1.9.5 seems to be the cause of the problem.

My sample build program is ClamAv-0.88.

I did a "configure, make" and it builds without issues.

I copied the libtool script (libtool-1.6), installed automake-1.9.5  
in /usr/local (so I wouldn't have to reinstall my OS), tryied to  
build it again and it failed, copied the libtool script  
(libtool-1.9.5) so I could examine them for differences.

How is this file generated???

If it's generated from a template then perhaps I can edit the  
template and add the missing stuff.

> > H
>
> -- Dale

-- Dale