FreeTDS Development Group

[Brian Bruns <camber AT umcc.ais.org>]

On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Michael Peppler wrote:

> Brian Bruns writes:
>  > 
>  > 
>  > On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Michael Peppler wrote:
>  > 
>  > > Kevin Wormington writes:
>  > >  > Hi all, I have been trying to compile the snapshot version under 
> Redhat
>  > >  > Linux 5.2 and I get a slew of errors regarding "@SHELL@" and 
> "@LIBTOOL@" not
>  > >  > being found.  I know that I could modify the Makefile.in to point 
> to the
>  > >  > correct path, but am I missing something to set the paths in a 
> single place?
>  > >  > 
>  > > 
>  > > I had the same problem this morning.
>  > > 
>  > > I ended up reinstalling autoconf and libtool from the sources...
>  > > 
>  > > Michael
>  > 
>  > Did that end up working for you? I only need to install libtool and
>  > everything was happy (actually I only needed the m4 file but...)
> 
> I first did that, but I may have gotten a libtool that was too recent, 
> because one of the commands then complained that I needed autoconf
> 2.13 instead of 2.12. So I ended up getting the new autoconf, and
> installing that (which was quick).
> 
> After that things went fine.
> 
> What I'm not sure I understand is why the autoconf package is needed
> at all. I don't have any of that installed on my Sun box and the build 
> doesn't break there...
> 
Yeah, if you don't have aclocal/autoconf/etc... it skips trying to rebuild
configure and uses the one that comes with the package.  If you have
autoconf then it tries to use it. I'm not sure whether that is standard
autoconf behaviour or whether the guy that gnuified freetds put that in.

Brian