Hi,

Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala <[email protected]> skribis:

> It seems to build guile I need to have automake 1.12 atleast. 

Yes.

> I feel that dependency is somewhat harsh given that ubuntu 12.04 is the 
> latest LTS.

Automake is not needed when building from a tarball.  So we’d just
requiring that from people who are likely developers (to be) of Guile.
This doesn’t sound unreasonable to me.

> configure.ac:61: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL
>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
>       See the Autoconf documentation.
> configure.ac:80: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIBTOOL_DLOPEN
> configure.ac:81: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
> configure.ac:908: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GNU_GETTEXT
> autoreconf: /home/yagnesh/local/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1

Make sure to install libtool-dev and gettext-dev (or similar packages).
They should provide the Autoconf macros mentioned above.

Thanks,
Ludo’.


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