Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Libtool changes checked in

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 	If you have aclocal (= autoconf) you are required to have
> 	automake macro that tests for libtool (AM_xx_LIBTOOL).
> 	Since the macro is included in libtool, the requirement would be like:
> 	1. install gtk
> 	2. if you have any of autoconf/automake/libtool, be sure to get all
> 	   these guys.  if you have none of them, that's fine.

Is that true if you only plan to compile and install from source, and
don't plan to change "Makefile.am", "configure.in", etc.? "autoconf"
etc.  are supposed to produce configure scripts, etc.  that don't
require you to have "autoconf", "automake", etc.  around - and, when I
tried building from a distribution tarball with "autoconf" and
"automake" installed, but without "libtool" installed, it seemed to
work.

> 	Another thing is that autoconf is required to be 2.13 or later;
> 	otherwise autoheader would generate empty config.h.in and the build
> 	will fail with strange result.

"autoconf" should simply fail if you have an earlier "autoconf" -
there's a check

	AC_PREREQ(2.13)

in "configure.in".