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

[chrislee lavash ius cs cmu edu]

>>>>> "T" == Tom Tromey <tromey@creche.cygnus.com> writes:

    >>> 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
    Owen> from shell programming, I don't see why you're getting such
    Owen> a messed-up error message.

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

Hi,

I installed perl 5.004_04 in my attempts to fix things (previously,
4.0 was installed), but it is possible that I failed to remake some
file in the automake distribution when I reinstalled it.

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

Good!

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

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

    T> This is the most common cause of this problem.  In fact, it's
    T> the only cause I've ever heard of.

I'm not sure what caused the problem.  However, I just did a 'cvs -z9
update' on gtk+, and the problem has _gone_away_ (yipee!).  Either
someone fixed the problem in the meantime, or the update time-stamped
something so that a problematic file somewhere was rebuilt correctly.

gtk+ is happily building on my system as I type.

 Thanks,
  -Chris