Re: check for libtool in autogen.sh

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 12:45:52AM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we've just discovered that 'libtool --version' doesn't work on MacOS X
> and this breaks autogen.sh from gtk+ and friends:
> 
>   if libtool --version < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
> 
> Actually the libtool version is checked using 'libtoolize --version',
> so that line should probably read 
> 
>   if libtoolize --version < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
> 
> Taking a closer look at the line that follow I found another oddity:
> 
>   libtool_version=`libtoolize --version |  libtoolize --version | sed
>                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Is this intentional?

While people are mucking in there, a couple of Abiword folkhave
mentioed problems on some platforms (like OS X) where you apparently
need to use 'glibtool' because apple ships a different something
called libtool.