Re: [Plplot-devel] autotools problems

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2005-01-25 08:19+0100 Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

> * Alan W. Irwin <ir...@be...> [2005-01-24 17:29]:
>
>> On 2005-01-24 16:35+0100 Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
>>
>>> * Arjen Markus <arj...@wl...> [2005-01-24 13:30]:
>>>
>>>> perl --version
>>>>
>>>> This is perl, v5.8.0 built for i386-linux-thread-multi
>>>> (with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)
>>>
>>> Seems okay.  Try this:
>>>
>>>   rm -rf autom4te.cache
>>>   cf/bootstrap.sh
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> One possibility Rafael brought up is that Arjen may have a broken autotools
>> install, but that seems to me to be most unlikely.
>
> Actually, Arjen's installation *_is_* broken and the introduction of the
> --aclocal-incdir option to bootstrap.sh helped him to get around the
> problem.  He does not need to get the libtool installation fixed anymore.

Hell, Arjen, if that is the case, take the half hour to install your own
version of autotools in /home.  It really is a no-brainer, and I repeat
the instructions here for any developer who wants to use our cvs version, but
who is stuck with out-of-date or broken autotools.

(1) Download the latest versions from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake, and http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool.
(Actually, instead of latest versions, you might want to choose the same
versions as Debian testing which I _know_ work; autoconf-2.59,
automake-1.8.5, and libtool-1.5.6)

(2) Choose a configuration prefix, let's say that is
/home/amarkus/autotools_install. Set your PATH so that
/home/amarkus/autotools_install/bin is first in the colon separated list.
(Do this before the autotools build). Then configure (with that prefix
without the trailing /bin), make, and make install autoconf, then automake,
and then finally libtool (in that order).  They are actually quite small so
the whole procedure is fast.

(3) Use that same PATH for your PLplot build starting with a fresh checkout
and cf/bootstrap.sh.

> In sum: there is nothing, absolutely nothing introduced in
> bootstrap.sh since June 2004 that can be the source of Arjen's problems.

Good.  Then from my extensive experience at this, a good autotools install
as above combined with setting the PATH as above (not only for the autotools
install, but also for PLplot) should solve the problem with no options
required for cf/bootstrap.sh.

Alan
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