Re: 'gettext' build failure

[Werner LEMBERG]

>>> The problem was that I had a local installation of 'autoconf' in
>>> `/usr/local` but was using 'automake' from `/usr`.  This doesn't
>>> work out of the box; I probably have to update some environment
>>> variables.  Too lazy to investigte this further, my solution was
>>> to locally install 'automake' (and 'libtool').  Now everything
>>> continues smoothly.
>> 
>> I wonder whether mxe should take care of this situation, given that
>> the most recent autoconf version (2.71) is not working for
>> everything.  Maybe I'm not the only one who quickly installs
>> autoconf 2.69 locally...
> 
> The autotools package[1] is intended to check for such mismatches
> and fail early - can you post the log for that package?

Attached.  At the time the mxe `autotools` package was built and
installed, `autoconf` (2.69) was in `/usr/local/bin`, and `automake`
(2.16.3) in `/usr/bin`.

> In the mean time, you can run:
> 
>   make libtool MXE_PLUGIN_DIRS=plugins/native MXE_TARGETS=
> 
> to install a known set of working versions in mxe-specific paths.

Interesting, thanks.  Where is this documented?


    Werner