Re: Building CVS HEAD libtool outside of source directory

[Bob Friesenhahn]

There is clearly something seriously wrong with bootstrap of CVS HEAD 
on my FreeBSD system.  In order to try to investigate why the VPATH 
build is now seriously failing tests on my FreeBSD and OS X systems, I 
checked out the libtool sources from CVS to a clean directory on the 
FreeBSD system.  I then did a 'bootstrap'.  The resulting configure 
script is totally borked as illustrated by this:

shaggy:~/build/libtool-head-cvs% ./configure --help
libtool configure 2.1a
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61

Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001,
2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This configure script is free software; the Free Software Foundation
gives unlimited permission to copy, distribute and modify it.
shaggy:~/build/libtool-head-cvs%

% ls -l configure
-rwxr-xr-x  1 bfriesen  home  28205 Oct 19 10:57 configure*

So it seems that VPATH has been a red-herring.

There are no out-of-the-ordinary warnings while bootstrap runs and no 
core dumps either.

shaggy:~/build/libtool-head-cvs% which autoconf
/usr/local/bin/autoconf
shaggy:~/build/libtool-head-cvs% autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.61
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.
shaggy:~/build/libtool-head-cvs% which automake
/usr/local/bin/automake
shaggy:~/build/libtool-head-cvs% automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.10
Written by Tom Tromey <address@hidden>
       and Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden>.

Copyright 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
shaggy:~/build/libtool-head-cvs% which m4
/usr/local/bin/m4
shaggy:~/build/libtool-head-cvs% m4 --version
m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.10
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Rene' Seindal.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
address@hidden, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/