On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 07:21:08PM +0000, Patrick Welche wrote:
> % sh buildconf
> rebuilding srclib/apr/configure
> buildconf: checking installation...
> buildconf: autoconf version 2.59 (ok)
> buildconf: libtool version 1.5a (ok)
> Copying libtool helper files ...
> cat: aclocal.m4: No such file or directory
> buildconf: Using libtool.m4 at /usr/local/share/aclocal/libtool.m4.
> 
> but, if I upgrade my libtool, there will be no file
> /usr/local/share/aclocal/libtool.m4
> cf libtool/NEWS:
> 
> New in 1.5b: 2004-??-??; CVS version 1.5a, Libtool team:
> ...
> * make install now deletes preexisting $prefix/share/libtool before installing
>   latest files.
> ...

libtool.m4 goes in $prefix/share/aclocal not share/libtool, and all this
means is that "make install" does an rm -rf on $prefix/share/libtool
before recreating it with the new files, I presume.  Are you actually
seeing practical problems? I'm using libtool HEAD without problems.

Regards,

joe

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