On Sun, 30 Jun 2024 at 20:31, Karl Berry <k...@freefriends.org> wrote:
> Hi Dave, > > installed and installing the prerelease version to a prefix earlier on > my > $PATH, not realizing I also needed to install libtool to the same > prefix > > Well, I'm glad that it's apparently not a "real" problem, but I'm rather > baffled. When I test an automake pretest, I don't do anything to install > libtool in the same test prefix early in PATH, and I've never had the > problem. > > Unless libtool is not installed anywhere in PATH in your scenario. Then > it makes sense :). --thanks, karl. > I just reproduced it on a third system and see the same issue. It's an ancient 32-bit SPARC Solaris 10 system with a bunch of not-quite-so-old GNU tools under /usr/local/gnu): hart@pogo> m4 --version | head -1 m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.16 hart@pogo> libtool --version | head -1 libtool (GNU libtool) 2.4.2 hart@pogo> autoconf --version | head -1 autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.71 hart@pogo> autoconf --version | head -1 autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.71 hart@pogo> /usr/local/gnu/bin/automake --version | head -1 automake (GNU automake) 1.16.5 hart@pogo> $HOME/usr/local/bin/automake --version | head -1 automake (GNU automake) 1.16.92 hart@pogo> Repro steps # wget https://davehart.net/ntp/test/ntp-4.2.8p18-vcs.tar.xz # tar xf *p18-vcs*xz # cd *vcs # ./bootstrap Works fine with 1.16.5 in /usr/local/gnu/bin, breaks with $HOME/usr/local/bin earlier on $PATH It might be something about the libevent configure.ac or Makefille.am, the source tree has projects nested three deep: configure.ac sntp/configure.ac sntp/libevent/configure.ac If you are willing to spend some time, I'm guessing you could reproduce the failure. Thanks for taking an interest. Cheers, Dave Hart
