Re: distributing libltdl with my package fails

[Gideon Go]

On Wednesday 20 April 2005 18:45, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hi Gideon,
>
> Please keep the mailing list in Cc, so others can help (or see whether
> their problems are the same as yours), unless you send really huge
> files.  Thank you.
>
> * Gideon Go wrote on Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 06:23:07PM CEST:
> > On Wednesday 20 April 2005 10:17, you wrote:
> > > * Gideon Go wrote on Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 02:11:32AM CEST:
>
> *snip*
>
> > > > I followed all directions as stated in "libtool.info:Distributing
> > > > libltdl" about what to include in configure.in:
> > > > AC_LIBLTDL_CONVENIENCE
> > > > AC_SUBST(LTDLINCL)
> > > > AC_SUBST(LIBLTDL)
> > > > AC_LIBTOOL_DLOPEN
> > > > AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
> > > > AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS(libltdl)
>
> *snip*
>
> > > > I got:
> > > > ...
> > > > libltdl/Makefile.am:5: INSTALL_LTDL does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
> > > > libltdl/Makefile.am:12: CONVENIENCE_LTDL does not appear in
> > > > AM_CONDITIONAL ...
> > > > autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
> >
> > Then I tried 4 different ways to build the testpackage "autotest.tar.bz2"
> > which really is my package without any source code ;)
>
> That's fine.  I think it also gave me the necessary clue: in toplevel
>
> configure.ac you have:
> | AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile
> |       libltdl/Makefile
> |       src/Makefile])
>
> Please remove libltdl/Makefile.  Explanation: AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS(libltdl)
> means there is a sub-configuration in libltdl, with associated
> configure.ac and created configure.  That libltdl/configure.ac already
> has libltdl/Makefile as output.
>
> Does everything work fine for you now?
> Is there an error in our documentation that suggests doing this?

Yes! Everything works fine now.  The libltdl/Makefile ended up here because it 
is included when I executed autoscan.  It does seem reasonable, so I left it 
there and forgot about it.  Thanks again!

Regards,
Gideon