Re: Compiling solution found!!

[Sigmund Freud <freud freud et tudelft nl>]

What u can also do, is copy the contents of /usr/local/share/aclocal to
/usr/share/aclocal.
Works too.

Freud

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On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Allen Unueco wrote:

> If you are having problems with aclocal when you run ./autogen.sh that
> look like this.
> 
> aclocal: configure.in: 11: macro `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' not found in library
> -or-
> autoconf: Undefined macros:
> configure.in:12:AC_CPP_ACCEPT_IDL
> configure.in:16:AC_CPP_PIPE_STDIN
> 
> Here is one thing to try (it fixed my problems).  
> 
> >From what I can tell if you have automake and libtool installed into
> different directories it is a bad thing.  This happened on my RedHat 5.2
> system because automake was installed from rpm into /usr and I installed
> libtool afterwards into /usr/local.  This made for a two sets of
> .../share/aclocal dirs. and for some reason aclocal doesn't like that.  
> 
> My solution was to uninstall the automake (rpm -e automake) and
> compile/install automake-1.3 (from ftp.gnu.org) into /usr/local (another
> route may be to install libtool into /usr with the --prefix=/usr
> option).  Then I re-installed libtool also into /usr/local (just to make
> sure :)
> 
> With all the .m4 files in one location (/usr/local/share/aclocal)
> everything worked for me.  
> 
> Good luck!
> -Allen
> 
> PS.  I did have one other problem but that is because I was installing
> my gnome files into /opt/gnome (not /usr/local).  After
> compiling/installing modules that put m4 files into
> /opt/gnome/share/local I would ust copy them into
> /usr/local/share/local.  I guess I could make a link from
> /usr/local/share to /opt/gnome/share but it is working and I don't care
>:)   I think I may just re-compile/install into /usr/local to save me
> some pain.
> 
> 
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