Re: Using Perl's cc

[Gavin Smith]

On 4 July 2015 at 11:39, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > I forgot to say, you need to re-run autogen.sh in the top directory,
>>
>> This bails out:
>>
>>   configure.ac:2: installing `./install-sh'
>>   configure.ac:2: installing `./missing'
>>   Makefile.am:51: Libtool library used but `LIBTOOL' is undefined
>>   Makefile.am:51:   The usual way to define `LIBTOOL' is to add `LT_INIT'
>>   Makefile.am:51:   to `configure.ac' and run `aclocal' and `autoconf' again.
>>   Makefile.am:51:   If `LT_INIT' is in `configure.ac', make sure
>>   Makefile.am:51:   its definition is in aclocal's search path.
>>   Makefile.am: installing `./depcomp'
>>   autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1
>
> After some googling, I tried to resolve this:
>
>   $ libtoolize
>   libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `build-aux'.
>   libtoolize: linking file `build-aux/ltmain.sh'
>   libtoolize: putting macros in `gnulib/m4'.
>   libtoolize: linking file `gnulib/m4/libtool.m4'
>   libtoolize: linking file `gnulib/m4/ltoptions.m4'
>   libtoolize: linking file `gnulib/m4/ltsugar.m4'
>   libtoolize: linking file `gnulib/m4/ltversion.m4'
>   libtoolize: linking file `gnulib/m4/lt~obsolete.m4'
>   libtoolize: Remember to add `LT_INIT' to configure.ac.
>   libtoolize: Consider adding `AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])' to configure.ac and
>   libtoolize: rerunning libtoolize, to keep the correct libtool macros 
> in-tree.
>
> But re-running autogen.sh after that still shows the same message and
> exits with status 1.  There's no LT_INIT in configure.ac, so maybe
> that is the problem?  (I know nothing about these matters.)

There is an LT_INIT in tp/Texinfo/Convert/XSParagraph/configure.ac;
try running libtoolize in that directory. autoreconf is documented to
be able to run libtoolize, but evidently that isn't enough. IIRC I had
to run libtoolize myself.