In an autoconf/automake/libtool project you need to run: libtoolize: this copies/links a few support scripts, including ltmain.sh (which is the main component of libtool). aclocal: this looks up all m4 macros that your configure script will need, and make a local copy for easier access. autoheader: optional, if you want to use config.h/AC_CONFIG_HEADERS, otherwise all … Read more
Use the LIBADD primary for libraries, and LDADD for executables. If you were building a libtool library libfoo.la, that depended on another library libbar.la, you would use: libfoo_la_LIBADD = libbar.la If you had other non-libtool libraries, you would also add these with -L and -l options: libfoo_la_LIBADD = libbar.la -L/opt/local/lib -lpng Typically, you would use … Read more
I also just stumbled over that problem when compiling MonetDB on my Linux machine. Here is the solution/workaround that worked for me: Always make clean after ./configure. In your example you should be able to do: ./configure –prefix=/root/build && make clean && make && make install I found the solution in a discussion on an … Read more
You typically need to use glibtool and glibtoolize, since libtool already exists on OS X as a binary tool for creating Mach-O dynamic libraries. So, that’s how MacPorts installs it, using a program name transform, though the port itself is still named ‘libtool’. Some autogen.sh scripts (or their equivalent) will honor the LIBTOOL / LIBTOOLIZE … Read more
Try running autoreconf –force –install ./configure make in the root directory of your project. If that doesn’t work, try running make maintainer-clean first and then go to step 1. If that still doesn’t work, run make maintainer-clean, then delete every generated file in the root directory of your project; including aclocal.m4, any m4 directory, any … Read more
It is a textual file that includes a description of the library. It allows libtool to create platform-independent names. For example, libfoo goes to: Under Linux: /lib/libfoo.so # Symlink to shared object /lib/libfoo.so.1 # Symlink to shared object /lib/libfoo.so.1.0.1 # Shared object /lib/libfoo.a # Static library /lib/libfoo.la # ‘libtool’ library Under Cygwin: /lib/libfoo.dll.a # Import … Read more