Re: [gtk-list] Re: CVS installation trouble

[Tom Tromey <tromey creche cygnus com>]

>> aclocal: macro `L_HOST at /usr0/space/bin/aclocal line 303, <CONFIGURE> line 29.

Owen> Odd... very odd. The warning were produced by a line:

Owen> 	warn "aclocal: macro \`$macro' required but not defined\n";

Owen> And despite the fact that the \ before the ` is a refugee from
Owen> shell programming, I don't see why you're getting such a
Owen> messed-up error message.

Me neither.  It looks like a bug in Perl to me.

Anyway, autoamke 1.2e has a change in it from a user that purports to
fix the error message.

Owen> The actual line in configure.in that is producing these errors is 
Owen> AM_PROG_LIBTOOL

Owen> Perhaps you installed libtool without setting
Owen> --prefix=/usr0/space ?

This is the most common cause of this problem.
In fact, it's the only cause I've ever heard of.

Tom