Re: bootstrapping CVS libtool

[Gary V. Vaughan]

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Scott James Remnant wrote:
| On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 16:41, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
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|>I am trying to get the current CVS libtool properly bootstrapped. The
|>libtool bootstrap script says that GNU autoconf 2.58 and GNU automake
|>1.8 are required.  There is no such thing as automake 1.8 yet.  I
|>retrieved a package called automake-1.7d from alpha.gnu.org but it is
|>not clear what it really is (the NEWS file is extended over the one
|>from 1.7.9).
|>
|>Using Autoconf 2.58 with this automake did not succeed to bootstrap
|>libtool.
|>
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| I use Autoconf 2.58 and Automake 1.7 (latest Debian packages, basically)
| to bootstrap and it works just fine.
|
| The gotcha is that for some reason aclocal pulls in both m4/libtool.m4
| AND /usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4 into aclocal.m4 and puts the latter
| last, so its macros get used.

This means that aclocal has found a dependency on a macro that is defined in
/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4, but not $top_srcdir/m4/libtool.m4 (m4_defined
macros can't be seen by aclocal.m4).  If you have time to investigate, it
would be nice to prevent this happening before we release.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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