On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Dave McKenzie wrote: > > I had a problem with autogen.sh when compiling TN5250 on RedHat 8.0. > (This was 0.17.1 downloaded from CVS.) It had worked OK on RedHat 7.3. > > The problem was it didn't copy ltmain.sh to the TN5250 directory, which > caused later fatal errors. automake versions prior to 1.6 run > libtoolize internally to get ltmain.sh. But in 1.6 they took libtoolize > out of automake and put it in autoreconf, part of autoconf. (RedHat 7.3 > has automake 1.4, while 8.0 has 1.6.) > > The fix was to put libtoolize into autogen.sh just before the call to > automake. Works OK now.
I had the same problem with RedHat 8.0, but hadn't had a chance to chase down the problem yet. Thanks for posting this! I've had other problems as well... In fact, I've had no end to problems and frustrations with automake/autoconf. Sometimes I think it'd be easier to not use them at all. On FreeBSD, if I don't use autoconf version 2.13, then the configure script doesn't work. It crashes like this: loading cache /dev/null within ltconfig ltconfig: you must specify a host type if you use `--no-verify' Try `ltconfig --help' for more information. configure: error: libtool configure failed (Whereas with 2.13, it works flawlessly.) On any system using a newer version of autoconf, I get these warning messages: configure.in:11: warning: do not use m4_patsubst: use patsubst or m4_bpatsubst configure.in:201: warning: AC_CANONICAL_HOST invoked multiple times configure.in:223: warning: do not use m4_regexp: use regexp or m4_bregexp WARNING: Using auxiliary files such as `acconfig.h', `config.h.bot' WARNING: and `config.h.top', to define templates for `config.h.in' WARNING: is deprecated and discouraged. WARNING: Using the third argument of `AC_DEFINE' and WARNING: `AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED' allows to define a template without WARNING: `acconfig.h': WARNING: AC_DEFINE([NEED_MAIN], 1, WARNING: [Define if a function `main' is needed.]) WARNING: More sophisticated templates can also be produced, see the WARNING: documentation. All of this really needs to be fixed... I wish I knew more about automake & autoconf. Sigh _______________________________________________ This is the Linux 5250 Development Project (LINUX5250) mailing list To post a message email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/linux5250 or email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/linux5250.
