Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 16:14:45 +0200 From: Marco Molteni <molter@tin.it> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: building something from CVS with GNU autotools Message-ID: <20050705161445.1d47440c.molter@tin.it>
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I pulled all my hair and lost my sanity. I searched mailing lists ang google, found a lot of people with my same problem but never a definitive solution. Problem is when trying to build on fbsd no matter which program out of CVS (ie: not a release) which uses GNU autotools. After patching ./autogen.sh to use the versioned autotools, I get the standard error (standard because google is full of it): ./ltconfig: ./ltconfig: No such file or directory configure: error: libtool configure failed I tried also building a directory full of symlinks and putting it at the beginning of my PATH, to be sure to catch any invocation of the autotools stuff: molter@gattaccio[~]$ ls autodamage aclocal@ -> /usr/local/bin/aclocal15 autoconf@ -> /usr/local/bin/autoconf259 autoheader@ -> /usr/local/bin/autoheader259 and so on, but I still hit the wall. In my case I am trying to compile the CVS version of silky (http://silky.sourceforge.net/), but as I said silky is a program like another. I also saw there is a /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.autotools.mk makefile with some comments in it, but it is not clear to me how to reuse that stuff outside of a port. Is there a way to solve my problems, without requiring any fbsd user to become a master of the weird and (censured comments) autotools ? thanks marco
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