* Troy Benjegerdes wrote on Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 04:18:06PM CEST: > > Did you manage to get this working on a debian system with just the > newer version of libtool? Jeff suggests I build libtool and all the > other autotools as well, but I'd like to see if I can avoid that, and > just update libtool.
If you want to update libtool alone (and thus have it in a different $prefix than the other autotools), you need to help aclocal to find the new libtool macro files. - either: everywhere where aclocal is executed in autogen.sh, you replace it with aclocal -I$prefix_of_libtool_installation/share/aclocal - or: in the normal directory where aclocal searches, add a file named "dirlist" which lists other directories to be searched. Note however, that _these_ directories are searched _after_ the normal one, so if you have libtool macros in both, a mixup will occur and you'll only get angry. :) (It would be good to augment the autogen.sh script so that it honored a setting like ACLOCAL="path/to/aclocal -I ..." (in Bourne shell speak) and similarly for AUTOMAKE, AUTOCONF, LIBTOOLIZE). Cheers, Ralf