Re: installing automake 1.9.5 and now libtool isn't working properly.

[Peter O'Gorman]

Dale Walsh wrote:
> On Jan 13, 2006, at 03:07 , Harlan Stenn wrote:
>
> > The stuff I was proposing may be way more than you need.  It is also a
> > nontrivial amount of work to set up (those sort of things are how I  earn
> > the majority of my living).
> >
> > Do you have darwinports installed?
>
>
> Yes I do however, the automake that darwinports installs causes  
> problems with Apple's perl, of course they have a replacement perl as  
> well however this has problems with other Apple installed software.
>
> > If so you should be able to see if any special patches are used  against
> > the stock auto* tools.

I think that the problem is that aclocal is picking up a different version 
of libtool.m4 than it should. It looks like you have a modern ltmain.sh and 
an old libtool.m4, thus meaning SED (and a whole bunch of other things) is 
undefined.

Please install the latest gnu libtool (1.5.22) in the same prefix that you 
installed automake (use --program-prefix=g during configure of libtool to 
get glibtool/glibtoolize) and try again. I usually ensure that my 
automake/autoconf and libtool are all installed in the same prefix - 
/usr/local, or whereever you like, it causes no end of grief otherwise.

Whatever are the problems with Apple's perl that you're talking about?

You aren't building things with --prefix=/usr, are you? I don't understand 
why you'd need to reinstall your OS to recover from this situation.

Hope that this helps,
Peter