Re: how to break out of the libtool rathole ?

[Gary V. Vaughan]

On Jul 18, 2013, at 10:17 AM, Dennis Clarke <address@hidden> wrote:

> libtool: Version mismatch error.  This is libtool 2.4.2, revision 1.3337,
> libtool: but the definition of this LT_INIT comes from revision 1.3201.
> libtool: You should recreate aclocal.m4 with macros from revision 1.3337
> libtool: of libtool 2.4.2 and run autoconf again.
> gmake[2]: *** [libltdl/loaders/libltdl_libltdl_la-preopen.lo] Error 63
> gmake[2]: Leaving directory 
> `/usr/local/build/libtool-2.4.2_SunOS5.8_sparcv9.003'
> gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory 
> `/usr/local/build/libtool-2.4.2_SunOS5.8_sparcv9.003'
> gmake: *** [all] Error 2
> mimas$ 

This happens when you partially regenerate libtool m4 files (specifically 
ltversion.m4)
using a different version of libtool to the one you are building with, and 
prevents
a lot of problems later on if you had continued with a mix-and-match of 
ltmain.sh and
libtool.m4 from different libtool revisions.

Assuming you clear up the problem with your file timestamps, you'll be able to 
use
the generated files as is from the release tarball which do have matching 
version
numbers.

If you prefer to build from git, then the bootstrap script will generate the 
missing
files correctly before you call ./configure.

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)