[Freeassociation-devel] Building libical trunk with autotools

[Allen Winter]

Problem solved. 
I had mixed several different old versions of autoconf installed locally.

Never mind.

On Wednesday, March 09, 2011 03:47:42 pm Allen Winter wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> I can no longer build libical using autotools.
> I have autoconf v2.66 and automake 1,9.
> Would anyone with autotools fu please take a look and see how to fix?
> 
> Here's what happens:
> 
> allen at dizzy:/usr/local/src/freeassociation/trunk/libical$ ./bootstrap 
> ... running autoreconf ...
> autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> autoreconf: configure.in: not using Gettext
> autoreconf: running: aclocal --force 
> aclocal:configure.in:22: warning: macro `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' not found in library
> autoreconf: configure.in: tracing
> autoreconf: configure.in: not using Libtool
> autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force
> configure.in:22: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PROG_LIBTOOL
>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
>       See the Autoconf documentation.
> autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
> ... removing autoheader cache files ...
> 
> This script has been tested with autoconf 2.53 and
> automake 1.5. Other versions may work, but we recommend
> the latest echo compatible versions of these.
> 
> Also note that autoconf and automake should be configured
> with the same prefix.
> 
> allen at dizzy:/usr/local/src/freeassociation/trunk/libical$ ./configure
> configure: error: cannot run /bin/sh ./config.sub
>