Re: Problem compiling libgtop

[Louis-Dominique Dubeau <ldd step polymtl ca>]

Martin Baulig <martin@home-of-linux.org> writes:

> The Makefile relies upon the this feature - and if you look at the
> autogen.sh of for instance glib:
> 
> (libtool --version) < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 || {
>         echo
>         echo "You must have libtool installed to compile $PROJECT."
>         echo "Get ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool-1.2b.tar.gz"
>         echo "(or a newer version if it is available)"
>         DIE=1
> }
> 
> or the standard autogen.sh from the macros directory:
> 
> (libtool --version) < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 || {
>     echo
>     echo "**Error**: You must have "\`libtool\'" installed to compile
> Gnome."
>     echo "Get ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libtool-1.2.tar.gz"
>     echo "(or a newer version if it is available)"
>     DIE=1
> }
> 
> I don't know whether this is documented in the FAQ or in the build
> instructions, but since most autogen.sh's tell you to use libtool 1.2
> it should be clear ...

Unfortunately, if you have libtool 1.0, the above messages won't ever
get displayed so you have to *guess* that maybe you need 1.2.

Is there a place where such information is posted???  I'd assume that
the other core developpers of GNOME would need to have that
information.

	Regards,
	ldd