Re: [xml] autogen.sh failure

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 08:47:10AM -0400, Rob Richards wrote:
> I had to do a fresh checkout on a fedora 12 system and was unable to
> get autogen.sh to work in its current state. It's the change to use
> autoreconf that causes it to no longer work. Same problem when
> tested on OSX as well.
>
> When it is run I got the following output:
> I am going to run ./configure with no arguments - if you wish
> to pass any to it, please specify them on the ./autogen.sh command line.
> aclocal: couldn't open directory `m4': No such file or directory
> autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
> ./autogen.sh: line 63: ./configure: No such file or directory
>
> Now type 'make' to compile libxml.

  What if you just create the m4 directory and just rerun autogen.sh ?

> When run in verbose mode I never see autoreconf running libtoolize
> (it does find it because when run in debug mode it properly detects
> and outputs the version of libtoolize), so after running it manually
> (both fedora and OSX):
> libtoolize --copy --force
>
> the autogen.sh script worked properly to setup the build environment.
>
> Does the libtoolize line need to remain within the autogen.sh script
> to insure it works across the board?

  I'm not sure but I think at some point I had to create that m4
directory and everything went well there after, maybe this need
to be added to autogen.sh

Daniel

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