Re: Problems getting balsa to build

[Peter Williams <peter newton cx>]

On Sat, 15 Jan 2000 09:46:17 Michael Johnson wrote:
> I've installed the autoconf, automake, libtool, gob and gettext packages
> but cannot get balsa to configure. I'm not an autoconf guru, so I'm at a
> loss. I'm attaching the console output from running ./autogen.sh in the
> balsa tree from CVS. It's appears to me that it's complaining about a
> bunch of missing M4 macros? Any assistance would be appreciated.
[...]
> You should add the contents of `/usr/local/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' to 
`aclocal.m4'.
> Running aclocal  -I macros ...
> aclocal: configure.in: 28: macro `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' not found in library

This is probably it. Try moving /usr/local/share/aclocal/libtool.m4 to 
/usr/share/aclocal. aclocal only checks the latter directory for M4 
files. All the other errors are probably based on this.

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Peter Williams peter@newton.cx