Re: Automake and 'make install' issues

[Ralf Corsepius]

Am Die, 2001-12-11 um 23.14 schrieb Daniel S Rabinovitz:
> Hi all.  I'm using automake and autoconf on a small project to build a .so
> library on Linux.  I am not using libtool to build this.  Building works
> correctly, but installation does not.  When I type 'make install', i get
> the following error:
> 
> /bin/sh ../mkinstalldirs /usr/lib
>  @LIBTOOL@  --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c  libica.so
> /usr/lib/libica.so
> /bin/sh: @LIBTOOL@: command not found
> 
> Then a whole bunch of errors
> 
> Why does this happen?  And how can i get rid of LIBTOOL altogether in this
> project?
> 
> I have another project I'm using automake and autoconf with also, and
> looking at the Makefile.ins for both projects, the project that works has
> 
> echo "  $(INSTALL_PROGRAM) $$p $(DESTDIR)$(bindir)...
> 
> whereas my broken project has:
> 
> echo " $(LIBTOOL)  --mode=install $(INSTALL_PROGRAM) $$p $(DESTDIR)
> $(bindir)
> 
> How can I get rid of the LIBTOOL in the latter case?
How does your Makefile.am look like?

I assume you might be using xxx_LTLIBRARIES in your Makefile.am without
having AM_PROG_LIBTOOL in your configure.ac, instead of xxx_LIBRARIES.

Ralf