On Nov 14, 2008, at 7:58 PM, Guy Harris wrote:
If you installed the new autoconf and automake under /usr/local, they
might be looking for libtool's stuff under /usr/local and *not*
under /
usr.
Read it and weep:
http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Macro-search-path
"As an example, suppose that automake-1.6.2 was configured with --
prefix=/usr/local. Then, the search path would be:
/usr/local/share/aclocal-1.6/
/usr/local/share/aclocal/"
Note the complete and utter lack of "/usr/share/aclocal". Note also
that, at least on my Leopard Mac, libtool.m4 is in that very missing
directory:
$ ls /usr/share/aclocal
bison-i18n.m4 libxml.m4 ltdl.m4
libtool.m4 libxslt.m4 wxwin.m4
which suggests that, were I to install a newer version of automake
from source, with the default configuration, it wouldn't find the
libtool macros.
I see nothing in the automake documentation to indicate that there's
some environment variable that can be set to force automake to look
in /usr/share/aclocal even if it was built with the default --prefix=/
usr/local configuration.
However, the section "6.3.2.3 Modifying the macro search path:
dirlist" seems to indicate how you fix up this mess; if you put a file
with the contents
/usr/share/aclocal
in /usr/local/share/aclocal/dirlist, that *might* convince the version
of automake installed in /usr/local/bin to look in /usr/share/aclocal
for macros.
