Re: [Blitz-support] Repository questions, and where is configure?

[Patrik J. <co...@fa...>]

Ok, glad it worked, though I'm surprised "make install" didn't install
the libblitz.a in the right place. It does for me.

cheers,

/Patrik

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Mark Stock <ms...@um...> wrote:
> Patrick,
>
> It looks like I didn't have libtool itself. This was a new install, and
> didn't come with autoconf, automake, libtool, etc. I'm not too familiar with
> that build system, so I didn't know which packages I needed.
>
> It works now on both platforms. (Still had to manually move libblitz.a from
> lib/.libs/ to lib/, though.) Thanks for the quick replies.
>
> Mark
>
>
> On Tue, 3 Apr 2012, Patrik Jonsson wrote:
>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Mark Stock <ms...@um...> wrote:
>>
>>> I do not seem to be receiving reply messages from the list. I
>>> didn't subscribe, but expected at least to see Patrik's reply in
>>> my inbox instead of having to go to the web archive to read it.
>>
>>
>> The list seems to be set to reply only to the list, not to the
>> original author. (I didn't even know non-subscribers could post to the
>> list.) I manually included you now.
>>
>>> Second, running "autoreconf -fiv" creates a "configure" file, but
>>> returns the following errors (on both RHEL 5.4 and Fedora 16):
>>>
>>> $ autoreconf -fiv
>>> autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
>>> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
>>> autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4
>>> configure.ac:84: warning: macro `AM_DISABLE_SHARED' not found in
>>> library
>>> autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
>>> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
>>> autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force
>>> configure.ac:84: error: possibly undefined macro:
>>> AM_DISABLE_SHARED
>>>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use
>>> m4_pattern_allow.
>>>       See the Autoconf documentation.
>>> configure.ac:85: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
>>> autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
>>>
>>> And then running "./configure" gives:
>>>
>>> $ ./configure
>>> configure: error: cannot find install-sh, install.sh, or shtool
>>> in config "."/config
>>>
>>> This is using automake-1.11.1-5.fc14.noarch,
>>> autoconf-2.68-2.fc15.noarch, and libtool-ltdl-2.4-9.fc16.x86_64
>>> on the F16 machine,
>>>
>>> and automake-1.9.6-2.3.el5, autoconf-2.59-12, and
>>> libtool-ltdl-1.5.22-6.1 on RHEL 5.4.
>>
>>
>> Weird. I just tried this on my FC16 machine and it worked fine. This is
>> with
>>
>> autoconf.noarch           2.68-2.fc15             @anaconda-0
>> automake.noarch           1.11.1-5.fc14
>> @anaconda-InstallationRepo-201010211827.x86_64/14
>> libtool.x86_64            2.4-7.fc16              @anaconda-0
>>
>> It looks like you just have a slightly newer version of libtool. (I
>> assume you do have libtool installed in addition to libtool-ltdl,
>> right?)
>>
>> Did you start with a pristine clone? Whenever I've had these problems,
>> it's been resolved by just starting over with a clean checkout.
>> Otherwise I don't have any good ideas why it's not working.
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> /Patrik
>>
>>
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