Re: [Mesa3d-dev] autoconfmake bugs fixed

[Brian P. <br...@va...>]

Lee Brown wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 07 Jan 2001, Sven M. Hallberg wrote:
> 
> > -- FYI --
> > Here are the versions the programs themselves report:
> >
> > Autoconf: autoconf (GNU autoconf) 2.49c
> > Automake: automake (GNU automake) 1.4c
> > Libtool: ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.3c (1.851 2001/01/05 09:33:38)
> 
> Sven,
> 
> I tried the latest from these cvs repositories and I failed to build libtool.
> 
> ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.3c (1.852 2001/01/08 01:52:10)
> 
> I managed to get the above versions of autoconf and automake to build however.
> 
> Can download (or anybody) download the latest libtool and get it to work?
> 
> I get the following errors.
> 
> lee@darkstar:~/cvs/libtool$ ./bootstrap
> configure:5820: error: undefined macro: AR_FLAGS
> autoheader: config.h.in is unchanged
> configure.in: 33: `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' is obsolete, use `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' instead
> configure:6074: error: undefined macro: AR_FLAGS
> configure.in: 10: `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' is obsolete, use `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' instead
> Makefile.am:126: variable `libdir' not defined
> Makefile.am:130: variable `libdir' not defined
> configure:5650: error: undefined macro: AR_FLAGS
> configure.in: 8: `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' is obsolete, use `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' instead
> configure:5478: error: undefined macro: AR_FLAGS
> configure.in: 16: `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' is obsolete, use `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' instead
> configure:5971: error: undefined macro: AR_FLAGS
> configure.in: 8: `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' is obsolete, use `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' instead
> configure:5478: error: undefined macro: AR_FLAGS
> 
> <gripe>
> I understand that it might be useful to have the latest
> autoconf/automake/libtool set,  but why not use the latest stable releases
> rather than the latest bleeding edge tools? It seems to me this would take out
> one more source of bugs in the code.  I also have to do four cvs updates just
> to get mesa to work rather than one.  Perhaps mesa is such a special library
> that it requires the latest and greatest,  but I really doubt it. I may add
> this is coming from somebody who considers himself pretty good at automake.
> </gripe>

I haven't had time to try the new tools and ./bootstrap but I'm
concerned about needing bleeding-edge tools.  Why are these
development versions of libtool, etc needed?

-Brian