On Mon, 8 Jul 2024 at 22:05, Karl Berry <k...@freefriends.org> wrote:
> I've committed the changes below to help give more hints about the need > to run libtoolize. I ended up adding a new section to the manual and > referring to it from the alpha-NEWS and variable warning. It's in the > below patch as the new > @node Libtool library used but LIBTOOL is undefined > > After making a hello,world using libtool (attached for my own memory :), > I found that just running aclocal -I... did not suffice. After the > aclocal run, the next error was: > configure.ac:9: error: required file './ltmain.sh' not found > just as already described in the manual (preceding node). So running > libtoolize is needed, not just playing with -I options, as far as I can > tell. > > I also discovered that although libtoolize only asks you to "consider" > creating an m4/ subdir for macros, in fact it is a requirement, at least > in the case of automake and libtool in different prefixes. Without > AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS([m4]), the original > "error: Libtool library used but 'LIBTOOL' is undefined" persists. > > (Aside: It was also rather irritating to have to run automake > --add-missing three separate times as new pieces were found. Oh well.) > > It's all quite a confusing conglomeration, but I don't think there's > anything to do about here. > > I guess I will leave this open in hopes of figuring out that m4 stub > approach, but this is all I can see to do for the 1.17 release. (I've > got nothing else pending for 1.17, so if anyone knows of a reason to > delay, let me know asap.) --thanks, karl. > This looks great, Karl, thanks for all your time investigating and documenting the issue. Lots of nice nit-fixing too! Cheers, Dave Hart
