Where's Libtool?

[Yuri Pankov]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 03:12:14PM -0400, Michael B Allen wrote:
> On 7/17/07, Yuri Pankov <yuri at darklight.org.ru> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 02:46:06PM -0400, Michael B Allen wrote:
>> > On 7/17/07, Yuri Pankov <yuri at darklight.org.ru> wrote:
>> >> Just one note though: devel/auto* tools are mainly for ports
>> >> infrastructure usage, for your own use check devel/gnu-auto* ports.
>> >> Sorry if this is obvious.
>> >
>> > Ok. This is a problem. I'm trying to build something that is not in
>> > ports and it needs libtool. I installed the ports libtool but it did
>> > not work. The application I'm trying to build is choking with the
>> > following error:
>> >
>> > configure.in:212: warning: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL is m4_require'd but is not
>> > m4_defun'd
>> > configure.in:212: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL is required by...
>> > configure.in:50: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
>> >      If this token and others are legitimate, please use 
>> m4_pattern_allow.
>> >      See the Autoconf documentation.
>> > autoreconf: /usr/local/gnu-autotools/bin/autoconf failed with exit 
>> status:
>> > 1
>> >
>> > Is there a gnu-libtool package? If there is I don't see it. There were
>> > a gnu-autoconf and gnu-automake packages but for some reason I don't
>> > see libtool in any of the standard packages for 6.2.
>> >
>> > Any ideas?
>> >
>> > Mike
>>
>> Check this link
>> http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org/beryl-backup/wiki/Install/FreeBSD
>> and try to do steps from "Add to your PATH /usr/local/gnu-autotools/bin"
>> to the end of section (without X11R6 line, of course).
>
> I already did that before. As you can see configure ran so the
> auto-whatever stuff is running. It just can't get the AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
> macro which I assume is because it can't find libtool.
>
> Mike

Sorry. There's no gnu-libtool, cause libtool doesn't have multiple
versions in devel, I guess, so you'll need devel/libtool, which installs
/usr/local/share/aclocal/libtool.m4. If it's already installed, then I
don't know why gnu-autotools doesn't find it...


Yuri
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