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Date:      Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:12:14 -0400
From:      "Michael B Allen" <ioplex@gmail.com>
To:        "Yuri Pankov" <yuri@darklight.org.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Where's Libtool?
Message-ID:  <78c6bd860707171212y23ec1f90q1116202e1f95c0ab@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070717185741.GB1152@darklight.org.ru>
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On 7/17/07, Yuri Pankov <yuri@darklight.org.ru> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 02:46:06PM -0400, Michael B Allen wrote:
> > On 7/17/07, Yuri Pankov <yuri@darklight.org.ru> wrote:
> >> Just one note though: devel/auto* tools are mainly for ports
> >> infrastructure usage, for your own use check devel/gnu-auto* ports.
> >> Sorry if this is obvious.
> >
> > Ok. This is a problem. I'm trying to build something that is not in
> > ports and it needs libtool. I installed the ports libtool but it did
> > not work. The application I'm trying to build is choking with the
> > following error:
> >
> > configure.in:212: warning: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL is m4_require'd but is not
> > m4_defun'd
> > configure.in:212: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL is required by...
> > configure.in:50: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
> >      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
> >      See the Autoconf documentation.
> > autoreconf: /usr/local/gnu-autotools/bin/autoconf failed with exit status:
> > 1
> >
> > Is there a gnu-libtool package? If there is I don't see it. There were
> > a gnu-autoconf and gnu-automake packages but for some reason I don't
> > see libtool in any of the standard packages for 6.2.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Mike
>
> Check this link
> http://3v1n0.tuxfamily.org/beryl-backup/wiki/Install/FreeBSD
> and try to do steps from "Add to your PATH /usr/local/gnu-autotools/bin"
> to the end of section (without X11R6 line, of course).

I already did that before. As you can see configure ran so the
auto-whatever stuff is running. It just can't get the AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
macro which I assume is because it can't find libtool.

Mike



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