misc/81558: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL macro is not available to automake

[Giorgos Keramidas]

The following reply was made to PR misc/81558; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at freebsd.org>
To: Markus Hoenicka <markus.hoenicka at mhoenicka.de>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/81558: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL macro is not available to automake
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 17:33:14 +0300

 On 2005-05-27 14:16, Markus Hoenicka <markus.hoenicka at mhoenicka.de> wrote:
 > If configure.in calls the AC_PROG_LIBTOOL macro, the command sequence
 >
 > libtoolize15 --force --copy
 > aclocal19 --force
 > autoheader259
 > automake19 --add-missing --force-missing
 > autoconf259
 >
 > fails to build a usable configure script. The error message
 > indicates that the AC_PROG_LIBTOOL and AC_PROG_LD macros cannot be
 > expanded:
 >
 > configure.in:27: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LD
 >       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
 >       See the Autoconf documentation.
 > configure.in:29: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
 
 I don't think using the autoconfXXX and automakeXXX ports for software
 that builds outside of the Ports is supported.  Please use the
 devel/gnu-autoconf, devel/gnu-automake and devel/gnu-libtool ports
 for this sort of thing.  These will install full versions of the
 autotools in /usr/local/gnu-autotools and can be used by setting the
 PATH to point first to /usr/local/gnu-autotools/bin and then to
 /usr/local/bin.
 
 - Giorgos