Re: Migrating from 1.5.x to 2.2.x

[Dan Nicholson]

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 12:57 AM, Jason Curl <address@hidden> wrote:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>>
>> Hello Jason,
>>
>> * Jason Curl wrote on Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:19:57PM CET:
>>
>>>
>>> Ignoring that my macro obviously won't work with 2.2.x, I'm using Cygwin
>>>  and I've come across my first problem. The old libtool is removed
>>>  (1.5.27a) and the new is installed (at least I think the old is removed).
>>>
>>> I deleted my aclocal.m4 file and I autoreconf. I do see that the new
>>>  libtool is being picked up by autotools as when configure I get errors
>>>  where I'd expect and it knows not to check for C++ or Fortran anymore.
>>>  "config.lt" generates the file "libtool" and thats where things start to
>>>  get stuck.
>>>
>>
>> 'get stuck' is pretty vague.  Please make it more specific by posting
>> the command you issued, and cut-and-pasting its output.  Since you seem
>> to have a macro that interferes with Libtool macros, please post it, too
>> (or a link if it's large or you've already posted it).  Showing contents
>> of configure.ac can help, too, but I'd be able to tell better with more
>> information.
>>
>
> OK - a "libtoolize" works around the problem. And "./libtool --version" now
> shows 2.2.6.

I would bet that you ran bare autoreconf. libtoolize is only run when
you pass --install to autoreconf. As Ralf points out, passing
--verbose to autoreconf can be very helpful while producing little
extra output.

--
Dan