Re: [Plplot-devel] current supported toolset?

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

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Maurice LeBrun wrote:

> Can anyone tell me what versions of autoconf/automake/libtool etc are
> working for you?  Today I tried a new checkout of plplot on Solaris
> and got a very long list of errors when running bootstrap.sh. E.g.


> [....]Aside: the first error about looking under /usr/share/libtool/libltdl is
> really strange.. I run everything local to my account --
>
> tonga$ which autoconf
> /home/mjl/local/SunOS/bin/autoconf
> tonga$ which automake
> /home/mjl/local/SunOS/bin/automake
> tonga$ which libtool
> /home/mjl/local/SunOS/bin/libtool
>
> I appear to be using:
>
> libtool-1.4.3
> autoconf-2.57
> automake-1.7

Those versions should be fine (identical versions to mine). But you have to
let bootstrap.sh know where a particular libltdl directory is (see
./bootstrap.sh --help).

From the information above, I think you have to run

./bootstrap.sh -I /home/mjl/local/SunOS/share/libtool/libltdl/

but you should check that that directory exists and is filled with the
correct files.  On my system

ls /home/software/autotools/install/share/libtool/libltdl/
COPYING.LIB  Makefile.in  acinclude.m4  config-h.in  configure.in  ltdl.h
Makefile.am  README       aclocal.m4    configure*   ltdl.c        stamp-h.in

Hope this information helps you get going with the latest PLplot, Maurice.

Following up on Maurice's later comment: Rafael, would it be straightforward
to supply a default for this -I option consisting of appending
'../share/libtool/libltdl/' to the results of `which libtool`?  I believe
such a default would take care of most if not all of our needs so we would
could simply invoke ./bootstrap.sh without parameters most of the time.

Alan
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