Re: gnulib and automake

[John W. Eaton]

On 28-Oct-2009, Rik wrote:

| When running autogen.sh I get
| 
| calling libtoolize...
| Remember to add `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' to `configure.ac'.
| 
| and a little further down
| 
| calling automake...
| libcruft/Makefile.am:26: Libtool library used but `LIBTOOL' is undefined
| libcruft/Makefile.am:26:   The usual way to define `LIBTOOL' is to add
| `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'
| libcruft/Makefile.am:26:   to `configure.ac' and run `aclocal' and
| `autoconf' again.
| libcruft/Makefile.am:26:   If `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' is in `configure.ac',
| make sure
| libcruft/Makefile.am:26:   its definition is in aclocal's search path.
| liboctave/Makefile.am:26: Libtool library used but `LIBTOOL' is undefined
| liboctave/Makefile.am:26:   The usual way to define `LIBTOOL' is to add
| `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'
| liboctave/Makefile.am:26:   to `configure.ac' and run `aclocal' and
| `autoconf' again.
| liboctave/Makefile.am:26:   If `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' is in `configure.ac',
| make sure
| liboctave/Makefile.am:26:   its definition is in aclocal's search path.
| src/Makefile.am:26: Libtool library used but `LIBTOOL' is undefined
| src/Makefile.am:26:   The usual way to define `LIBTOOL' is to add
| `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'
| src/Makefile.am:26:   to `configure.ac' and run `aclocal' and `autoconf'
| again.
| src/Makefile.am:26:   If `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' is in `configure.ac', make sure
| src/Makefile.am:26:   its definition is in aclocal's search path.
| 
| autogen.sh appears to succeed, but the next step of configure fails with
| 
| ./configure: line 16887: syntax error near unexpected token `disable-static'
| ./configure: line 16887: `LT_INIT(disable-static)'
| 
| Adding AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to configure.ac silenced the warnings but did not
| fix the issue with configure.
| 
| System is Linux Kubuntu 8.04.

It runs cleanly for me.

| automake-1.10

Given what Søren Hauberg said earlier, this version is apparently too
old.  You need 1.11.  I already added a requirement for 1.11 in
configure.ac.

| libtool-1.5.26

I also have 

  $ libtool --version
  ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 2.2.6
  Written by Gordon Matzigkeit <address@hidden>, 1996

so maybe 1.5.26 is also too old?  For now, I've added

  LT_PREREQ([2.2.6])

to configure.ac since that version is known to work, but could relax
that a bit if someone with an older version of libtool confirms that
it works without problems.

jwe