FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> From: Stan Liberman [mailto:stan AT vailsys.com]
> Sent: September 12, 2002 4:30 PM
> 
> > > I just checked out the latest version from the CVS, and since 
> > > I'm having problems with building checked out stuff
> 
> Is it possible that it requires some newer/different versions of
> automake, autoconf, or libtool?
> 
> I also have libtool installed in my home directory, since I don't have
> root privileges on the server, and we don't use much of the OSS except
> for FreeTDS.
> 
> (solaris) stan@sipdev2 $ ./autogen.sh 
> **Warning**: I am going to run `configure' with no arguments.
> If you wish to pass any to it, please specify them on the
> `./autogen.sh' command line.
> 
> processing .
> Running libtoolize...
> You should add the contents of
> `/export/home/stan/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' to `aclocal.m4'.
> Running aclocal  ...
> aclocal: configure.in: 21: macro `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' not found 
> in library
[snip]

Let's start there, that shouldn't happen.  I don't believe it's a version
issue; I think that's a well-established macro.  Based on what follows, I
think the message about /export/stan is a clue.   For the record, I have:

$libtool --version
ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.4a (1.641.2.255 2001/05/22 10:39:30)

A bit o' googling brought me to:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnumeric-list/1999-October/msg00074.html

in particular:

<quote>
X.1.3.1  Problems building from CVS

Sometimes, depending on what other packages you've installed or
compiled or upgraded, you may run into problems during the autogen.sh
script.  Some symptoms of these problems look like:

% ./autogen.sh
[snip]
Running aclocal  -I macros ...
aclocal: configure.in: 13: macro `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' not found in library
aclocal: configure.in: 19: macro `AM_PATH_GTK' not found in library
aclocal: configure.in: 19: macro `AM_PATH_GTK' not found in library
[snip]

This is caused when the aclocal program cannot find all the required
m4 macro files.  In this case, we have installed or upgraded software
packages into the /usr/local directory hierarchy.  However, aclocal is
only looking in the standard /usr/share/aclocal directory and the
local ./macros directory.  We need to tell aclocal to look in the
/usr/local/share/aclocal directory for user-installed files.

% export ACLOCAL_FLAGS='-I /usr/local/share/aclocal'
% ./autogen.sh

This should lead to a successful install
</quote>

Anything in there look likely?  What says "echo $ACLOCAL_FLAGS"?

Regards, 

--jkl


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