Hi Ralf - Just a follow up to this:
I think I can make this work if AM_LIBTOOLSFLAGS is supported. I upgraded autoconf to 2.6 so automake and autoconf are happy working together. I still get the error that the AM_LIBTOOLSFLAGS directory is not there. I greped in /usr/local/aclocal-1.10 for this macro but its not there. Where should this macro exist? Thanks. Jim -----Original Message----- From: Jim Rainville Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 6:50 AM To: 'Ralf Wildenhues' Cc: automake@gnu.org Subject: RE: adding libraries and header file directories Hi Ralf - I'm still struggling with this. I can link by executing the link manually as you suggested for testing but I'm still having problems automating it form autoconf/automake. The package I'm using only supports up to automake 1.9 (that's the highest that is set in the bootstrap script). But I modified the bootstrap script so that it would check and use 1.10. When I run the bootstrap script I get the output below. So, I have 3 questions: 1) Is there any way to set the --preserve-dup-deps flag with automake 1.9? 2) Why do I still get the error 'AM_LIBTOOLSFLAGS' not found in library? 3) What changes have to be made to go from 1.9 to 1.10? Thanks for your help. Jim + aclocal-1.10 -I m4 /usr/share/aclocal/xml-i18n-tools.m4:27: the serial number must appear before any macro definition configure.ac:80: warning: macro `AM_LIBTOOLFLAGS' not found in library configure.ac:19: error: Autoconf version 2.60 or higher is required /usr/share/aclocal-1.10/init.m4:103: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE is expanded from... configure.ac:19: the top level autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 63 aclocal-1.10: autom4te failed with exit status: 63 -----Original Message----- From: Ralf Wildenhues [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 9:22 AM To: Jim Rainville Cc: automake@gnu.org Subject: Re: adding libraries and header file directories Hello Jim, * Jim Rainville wrote on Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 06:14:49PM CET: > > I tried adding the --preserver-dup-deps flag in several different ways. > But for some reason it doesn't end up on the link line. I tried adding > it to the front of the LD flags but I'm guessing this is a flag to > libtool instead of to the linker. How do you add flags to libtool? Is > there a special macro to do this? If you are using Automake 1.10, then you can put this in LIBTOOLFLAGS (as user) or AM_LIBTOOLFLAGS (as developer). But just for testing, please go into the right directory and simply issue the link command line manually, with --preserve-dup-deps added. And post what happens. Thing is, this switch isn't as "helpful" as one would think at first, and I would like to know if that is the case in your case or not. :-) If it's not, then we will look further. Cheers, Ralf
