Re: config.status (or something) writes out a crippled libtool script

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Peter,

* Peter Ekberg wrote on Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 03:40:42PM CEST:
> 
> Something is very broken on cvs HEAD, at least for me.

Acknowledged.

> I have autoconf and automake from cvs as of yesterday after the
> mail by Ralf saying that you need bleeding edge.
> 
> This is what I try to do, exactly:
> 
> 1. Using Cygwin
> 2. Get a clean cvs copy.
> 3. do a s,/@/,/, on doc/libtool.texi, don't know what's up with my
> makeinfo...

Please show exact error output, plus makeinfo version.

> 4. ./bootstrap
> 5. Switch to MinGW
> 6. mkdir mingw
> 7. cd mingw
> 8. ../configure

*snip*
> config.status: executing libtool commands
> 
> 9. ls -l libtool
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 peda     Administ   242626 Aug 24 15:23 libtool
> 
>       Here, the libtool script seems fine.
> 
> 10. make
[ triggers ltmain.m4sh -> ltmain.sh recreation ]
> /bin/sh: autom4te: command not found
*snip*

Thanks for this report.  Can you try the attached patch?  It has the
disadvantage that yet another almost-identical copy of ltmain needs to
be shipped in the tarball.  If it works, please also try a `make dist',
extract the tarball in a new directory and try configuring that on mingw
right away.  Thanks!

Gary (or someone else), can you check that I did it correctly?
I always get confused with this stamp-vcl thingy.

>       No difference. So this second configure fails to produce
>       a working configure.

Workaround: configure and make (once after each bootstrap) on cygwin
where autom4te is available.  Then you can start configuring on mingw
(in a new tree).

> PS. Should not Makefile.am be added to libltdl/Makefile.am?
..
> Blast, that should have been "added to libltdl/.cvsignore"...

Yep.. I'll add it and ~/manual.html.  Thanks.

Cheers,
Ralf

        * Makefile.am (ltmain.in, ltmain.sh): Separate rules for these
        two targets: autom4te may not be available after bootstrap.
        * bootstrap: touch ltmain.in, not ltmain.m4sh.
        Reported by Peter Ekberg <address@hidden>.

Index: Makefile.am
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/libtool/libtool/Makefile.am,v
retrieving revision 1.157
diff -u -r1.157 Makefile.am
--- Makefile.am 23 Aug 2005 01:49:36 -0000      1.157
+++ Makefile.am 24 Aug 2005 14:23:42 -0000
@@ -179,20 +179,21 @@
 ##           should make this rule depend on Makefile but that will break
 ##           distcheck (at least) by rebuilding ltmain.sh in the source
 ##           tree whenever config.status regenerates the Makefile.
-EXTRA_DIST += $(auxdir)/ltmain.sh
-$(srcdir)/$(auxdir)/ltmain.sh: $(sh_files) $(auxdir)/ltmain.m4sh configure.ac \
+EXTRA_DIST += $(auxdir)/ltmain.in $(auxdir)/ltmain.sh
+$(srcdir)/$(auxdir)/ltmain.in: $(sh_files) $(auxdir)/ltmain.m4sh configure.ac \
                                $(srcdir)/stamp-vcl
+       cd $(srcdir); \
+       rm -f $(auxdir)/ltmain.in; \
+       $(M4SH) -B $(auxdir) $(auxdir)/ltmain.m4sh > $(auxdir)/ltmain.in
+
+$(srcdir)/$(auxdir)/ltmain.sh: $(srcdir)/$(auxdir)/ltmain.in
        $(timestamp); \
        cd $(srcdir); \
-       rm -f $(auxdir)/ltmain.in $(auxdir)/ltmain.tmp \
-           $(auxdir)/ltmain.sh; \
-       $(M4SH) -B $(auxdir) $(auxdir)/ltmain.m4sh \
-           > $(auxdir)/ltmain.in; \
+       rm -f $(auxdir)/ltmain.tmp $(auxdir)/ltmain.sh; \
        input="ltmain.m4sh"; \
        $(edit) -e "s,@TIMESTAMP\@,$$TIMESTAMP,g" \
                -e "s,@package_revision\@,$$1,g" \
                $(auxdir)/ltmain.in > $(auxdir)/ltmain.tmp; \
-       rm -f $(auxdir)/ltmain.in; \
        chmod a-w $(auxdir)/ltmain.tmp; \
        mv -f $(auxdir)/ltmain.tmp $(auxdir)/ltmain.sh
 
Index: bootstrap
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/libtool/libtool/bootstrap,v
retrieving revision 1.65
diff -u -r1.65 bootstrap
--- bootstrap   23 Aug 2005 11:14:55 -0000      1.65
+++ bootstrap   24 Aug 2005 14:23:43 -0000
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@
 # This file is misgenerated earlier in bootstrap to satisfy automake 1.9.1
 # and earlier, but has a new enough timestamp to not be updated.  Force it
 # to be regenerated at make-time with proper substitutions in place:
-touch $auxdir/ltmain.m4sh
+touch $auxdir/ltmain.in
 
 # Commit script caveat:
 cat <<EOF