Re: Two confusing problems

[John Levon]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 04:56:09AM +0100, John Levon wrote:

> I have :
> 
> automake (GNU automake) 1.4-p4
> Autoconf version 2.13
> ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.4 (1.920 2001/04/24 23:26:18)
> 
> Someone (let's call him Steve) has :
> 
> automake (GNU automake) 1.4
> Autoconf version 2.13
> ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.3.5 (1.385.2.206 2000/05/27 11:12:27)
> 
> 
> 1) I made a small autoconf/make project and sent him the make dist tarball.
> He cannot run autogen.sh automake :
> 
> Building Makefile templates... configure.in: 15: required file `./ltconfig' 
> not found
> 
> 
> I know libtool 1.4 and above don't install ltconfig. but why cannot it not
> find his present /usr/share/libtool/ltconfig for 1.3.5 ?

This has been "solved" by including ltconfig in the distribution. but not 
pic_mode var in libtool
is not efined, leading to unary operator expected in the script...

> 
> 3) I need to #define something to the value of $datadir/$PACKAGE (so that a 
> library
> can find its data files). I can't do this via config.h, and my scheme to use
> $CXXFLAGS fails, as config.status stores the added -D, and this breaks 
> subsequent
> make dist etc.

I solved this, it was late at night ....

john

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