Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 00:49:04 +0200 From: Henrik W Lund <henrik.w.lund@broadpark.no> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Headaches from auto* and libtool... Message-ID: <40C8E560.3060104@broadpark.no>
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Greetings, list! I've been given headaches lately, and I believe the auto* brothers and their buddy, libtool, to be the culprits. It all started when I installed Anjuta, the C/C++ IDE for GNOME. What it basically does for project management is use autoconf, automake and libtool to generate the familiar ./configure script and its like. Now, this all works well and good up until the configure script is run. It will fail with the following message: ... checking whether ln -s works... yes loading cache /dev/null within ltconfig ltconfig: you must specify a host type if you use `--no-verify' Try `ltconfig --help' for more information configure: error: libtool configure failed Now, the pickle is that I've got 4 versions of libtool installed, 3 of which are registered in the package database. I've got libtool-1.3.4 (not in the package database), libtool-1.3.5_2 (from origin devel/libtool13), libtool-1.4.3_3 (from origin devel/libtool14) and libtool-1.5.6 (from origin devel/libtool15). And with two versions each of both autoconf and automake installed, I'm suspecting that an unfortunate mix of versions of the various programs is what's causing this failure. I've googled around all day, and the error seems to be fairly common, but I've yet to find a clear answer. I'll tell you what I've tried: I've tried playing with symlinking libtool and libtoolize to different versions of libtool (as the binaries are named libtool13, libtool14, etc), to no avail. I've tried editing ./configure, removing the --no-verify flag, but this seems to always be replaced somehow. I've tried different macros in configure.in for autoconf, like AC_PROG_LIBTOOL and AC_CANONICAL_HOST, but still nothing. I've even tried different values for HOST as an environment variable. I know it's not Anjuta, because the IDE doesn't even need to be running for the error to occur. Basically, I'm stumped. Can anyone here help me? What's so special about these three programs that require numerous versions of each installed on the same system? Or can I uninstall all the older versions, keeping only the newest? Will this even do me any good? Thanks in advance! -Henrik W Lund
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