Re: autoconf, libtool, FreeBSD and --no-verify

[Johan Vervloet]

* Johan Vervloet (address@hidden) wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am building a project under FreeBSD using autoconf, automake and
> libtool.  When I run my generated configure script, it ends like this :
> 
>   loading cache /dev/null within ltconfig
>   ltconfig: you must specify a host type if you use `--no-verify'
>   Try `ltconfig --help' for more information.
>   configure: error: libtool configure failed

For the record, I solved the problem installing the libtool14 port
instead of the `vanilla' libtool port.

Johan



> 
> When I edit the configure file, and remove the `--no-verify' from this
> line
> 
>   ${CONFIG_SHELL-/bin/sh} $ac_aux_dir/ltconfig --no-reexec \
>   $libtool_flags --no-verify $ac_aux_dir/ltmain.sh $lt_target \
>   || { { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: libtool configure failed" >&5
> 
> the problem doesn't occur anymore.
> 
> Does anybody know why this is ? And is there a way to create a
> functional configure from configure.in automatically ? 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Johan
> 
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