Re: [htdig-dev] libtool... (Was: New patch - feedback)

[Gabriele B. <g.b...@co...>]

Dear mate Lachlan,

   sorry I've not been that much of help right now.

> I've never got the hang of libtool et al.  Could someone who knows the 
> drill try regenerating the configuration files with  libtool 1.4  or 
> the patched  1.3.5?  (Better yet, could someone post step-by-step 
> instructions?)

I already generated everything with:

autoconf 2.57, automake 1.6.3 and libtool 1.4.3

because I had already gone through these MacOSX issues (even though I
don't have a MacOSX) in february. I got it to compile without shared
libraries, as - IMHO - it is a problem regarding libtool more than an
application problem.

I had a chance to retry it today on cf.sourceforge.net (Darwin
ucf-cf-ppc-macosx-2 6.5 Darwin Kernel Version 6.5) and I got it compiled
(even right now).

I ran:
../htdig/configure --prefix=/home/users/a/an/angusgb/htdig
--disable-shared --enable-static

Are you sure you didn't run 'make distclean' before? I don't know why,
but if you don't erase the directory contents before, it keeps on
generating stuff with shared libs.

I remember - not exactly about the versions (I should have noted
everything somewhere!) - there were some compatibility problems also
with config.guess and config.sub files between automake and autoconf
too, which prevented the configure script to automatically detect some
information specifically related to the MacOSX world.

Also I found that libtool should have been upgraded to 1.4.x and ... I
did it.

Here is the entry in the ChangeLog:

==================
Thu Jan 30 19:28:32 CET 2003 Gabriele Bartolini
<an...@us...>

        * configure.in: used AC_LIBOBJ instead of deprecated LTLIBOBJS's
workaround
        * ltconfig: removed as not needed anymore since libtool 1.4
        * db/configure.in: added AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR(../) for letting
automake know to use the main ltmain.sh file
        * configure, aclocal.m4, Makefile.in, */Makefile.in,
config.guess, config.sub,
        install-sh, ltmain.sh, missing, mkinstalldirs: re-generated by
autotools: aclocal, autoconf 2.57, automake 1.6.3 and libtool 1.4.3
        * db/aclocal.m4, db/configure, db/mkinstalldirs: ditto
==================

But ... I am not the best person to ask for autotools stuff at all!
Everytime I have to touch them my legs start shaking. :-P

Please let me know ... (however I am pretty busy now, as next week I
have a kinda conference about ht://Check).

Ciao
-Gabriele
-- 
Gabriele Bartolini - Web Programmer
Comune di Prato - Prato - Tuscany - Italy
g.b...@co... | http://www.comune.prato.it
> find bin/laden -name osama -exec rm {} ;