Re: Incorrect version of libtool executable under Linux Mint

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 05/02/2016 01:04 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 12:57:32 -0500, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> > I've just switched to Linux Mint.  I've run into a problem immediately after
> > what looks like proper configuration.  When building, I see
> >
> > cd libgnu; make all
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/home/sebald/matlab/octave/build1/libgnu'
> > make all-recursive
> > make[2]: Entering directory `/home/sebald/matlab/octave/build1/libgnu'
> > make[3]: Entering directory `/home/sebald/matlab/octave/build1/libgnu'
> > CC areadlink-with-size.lo
> > ../libtool: line 2096: ../../octave/libgnu/areadlink-with-size.c: Permission
> > denied
> > gcc: error: : No such file or directory
> > gcc: fatal error: no input files
> > compilation terminated.
> >
> > I think that the problem here may be that ../libtool is being used (the one
> > constructed by "configure"), rather than /usr/bin/libtool.
>
> Is it possible you did not run bootstrap or had a partially built
> directory when you started building on your new distribution?
>
> Running ./bootstrap should run libtoolize --force, which should
> overwrite any libtool-generated files.
>
> But I haven't seen this error so I don't know what the cause is.

This is for empty build tree directories.  I didn't realize libtool is 
tied in with bootstrap, though.  I'm doing the bootstrap, but perhaps I 
need to do a maintainer's clean or download the repository from scratch. 
 Cloning... bootstrap... configure... make...  All right, well that 
seems to fix things.  Thanks Mike.

My guess is that something from a previous "bootstrap" on a different 
system remained.  I've always thought of bootstrap as being system 
independent though.  I did a diff between the files in the base 
directory of last night's octave and the clone I just downloaded.  They 
are the same.  The only thing different is a file

-rw-r--r-- 1 sebald sebald 5619 May  2 13:14 oct-conf-post.in.h

Guess it isn't that important.

Dan