I have tried to create a m4 distribution downloading the actual cvs-tree and using the bootstrap script. I am using: gettext 0.14.1 automake 1.9.5 autoconf 2.59 libtool 1.5.14 I have applied the patches to autconf and automake from the README file as suggested. The first difficulty with the bootstrap script was the missing of gnulib-tool. I have read all infos contained in the source tree but I have not found a reference explaining that I had to download the gnulib cvs-tree manualy. IMHO, the bootstrap script of bison cvs-tree solves this issue in a quite elegant way automaticaly connecting to subversion.gnu.org and downloading the needed gnulib cvs-tree into the top level srcdir. After having downloaded the gnulib cvs-tree manualy and adjusted the path accordingly so gnulib-tool could be found, I have started the bootstrap process. This process stoped with the following error message: [snip] gnu/Makefile.am:16: Libtool library used but `LIBTOOL' is undefined gnu/Makefile.am:16: gnu/Makefile.am:16: The usual way to define `LIBTOOL' is to add `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' gnu/Makefile.am:16: to `configure.ac' and run `aclocal' and `autoconf' again. gnu/Makefile.am: installing `ltdl/config/compile' configure.ac:134: installing `ltdl/config/config.guess' configure.ac:134: installing `ltdl/config/config.sub' Makefile.am: installing `./INSTALL' Makefile.am: installing `./COPYING' Makefile.am:161: Libtool library used but `LIBTOOL' is undefined Makefile.am:161: Makefile.am:161: The usual way to define `LIBTOOL' is to add `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' Makefile.am:161: to `configure.ac' and run `aclocal' and `autoconf' again. Makefile.am: installing `ltdl/config/depcomp' Makefile.am:243: installing `ltdl/config/mdate-sh' Makefile.am:243: installing `ltdl/config/texinfo.tex' autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1 bootstrap: generating testsuite
As can be seen, AC_PROG_LIBTOOL has not been defined in configure.ac and this should be fixed. After having fixed this issue the bootstrap process was successful. Please note that I do not follow the m4 mailing list on a regular base, so I may have missed something. May be all this has already been explained somewhere but I have missed it. Anyway, I hope that the suggestions will be of some help to you. Regards, Juan M. Guerrero _______________________________________________ Bug-m4 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-m4
