Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Patrick Smith wrote:
>>When I extracted the source from CVS and tried to build, buildconf failed
>>with these messages:
>>
>>buildconf: autoconf version 2.59 (ok)
>>buildconf: autoheader version 2.59 (ok)
>>buildconf: automake version 1.8.2 (ok)
>>buildconf: libtool version 1.5.2 (ok)
>>buildconf: running libtoolize
>>buildconf: running aclocal
>>aclocal: configure.ac: 67: macro `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' not found in library
>>The command 'aclocal' failed
>>
>>(It seems AM_PROG_LIBTOOL is now considered obsolete.)
>
> This is odd. I just updated to these versions of the tools on one of my dev
> boxes, and I don't get that error message. Also, I can't find any references
> anywhere to AM_PROG_LIBTOOL being obsolete...

It turns out there was a problem with the way I had installed autoconf
and automake. Once that was fixed, buildconf worked.

The automake ChangeLog.00 file has these comments:

2001-02-03 Tom Tromey <tromey_at_redhat.com>

         * automake.in (scan_one_autoconf_file): Disable warning about
         AM_PROG_LIBTOOL.

1999-02-01 Thomas Tanner <tanner_at_gmx.de>

         * automake.in: accept both A(C|M)_PROG_LIBTOOL, print a
         warning when AM_PROG_LIBTOOL was found
         * automake.texi: renamed AM_PROG_LIBTOOL to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL

At the moment, it seems both AC_... and AM_... work.
Received on 2004-02-11