In need of some general autoconf/libtool help

[Jim Keller]

I'm new to autoconf and libtool, and I'm trying to build some existing 
libraries into my project. (For those who might be familiar with them, 
I'm trying to use libmaildir from courier-imap, so that I don't have to 
write the maildir++ routines myself). However, I'm running into some 
difficulty, and need some general questions answered. This is on FreeBSD 
4.9. Any help at this point would be sincerely appreciated.

My configure.ac is as follows:

AC_PREREQ(2.59)
AC_INIT([cquota],[0.1])
AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR(src/cquota.c)
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
AC_PROG_LN_S
AC_PROG_MAKE_SET
AC_PROG_CC
AC_PROG_CXX
AC_HEADER_STDC([])
AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS(src/numlib src/liblock src/unicode src/maildir)
AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile src/Makefile])
AC_OUTPUT

And my questions are:

1. I have two different versions of aclocal on the system, one is in 
/usr/local/share/aclocal and the other is in /usr/local/share/aclocal19. 
The version in the "aclocal" directory is 1.5. If I run aclocal15 in my 
build directory, followed by autoconf259 && automake19, the configure 
script is generated properly, but then gives this error on run: 
"./ltconfig: Can't open ./ltconfig: No such file or directory". Now, I 
have a copy of ltconfig in /usr/local/share/libtool13 (but not 
/usr/local/share/libtool15 - why?). However, ltconfig doesn't appear to 
be in any of the other build directories I've seen for other projects. 
Where does it come from, and is it supposed to be generated 
automatically? And if it's necessary, why doesn't libtoolize --copy put 
it in the build directory?

2. Trying to get by the previous error, I simply copied 
/usr/local/share/libtool13/ltconfig into my build directory. I was able 
to get by the ltconfig error, but was then met with: "ltconfig: you must 
specify a host type if you use `--no-verify'". The only way I've found 
to get by this error is to manually remove --no-verify from the 
configure script, which I can only assume can potentially lead to 
problems later.

3. After going through the woes in 1 and 2, I decided to try aclocal19. 
Initially, it gives the illusion of properly generating the configure 
script, but doesn't appear to be linking libtool at all. 
(AC_PROG_LIBTOOL: not found during ./configure). Later in the build, I 
get libtool errors. I'm assuming this has to do with the fact that 
libtool15.m4 doesn't exist in /usr/local/share/aclocal19, as it does in 
/usr/local/share/aclocal. I copied libtool15.m4 into the 
/usr/local/share/aclocal19 directory, and the configure script runs 
successfully (are there any other m4 files I should be copying?). 
However, on make I get: "Linking libnumlib.la \ @LIBTOOL@: not found".

My build commands are as follows:
libtoolize15 --copy --force
aclocal19
autoconf259
automake19

This is where I stand right now, if anyone can offer any insight, I'd 
greatly appreciate it. I'm still just trying to get a handle on how all 
these tools fit together, since, as I mentioned, I'm very much a novice 
when it comes to autoconf. Also, after typing this post, I realized it 
might be better suited to the libtool mailing list, and I will post it 
there as well, but I figure someone here might have some ideas. Thanks.

-Jim Keller