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James Laird <jlaird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, 4 May 2005, Ed Hartnett wrote: >> James Laird <jlaird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >> > The libtool script used in the build process should be generated by >> > configure. That's why it looks for libtool in . and not in your path. >> > >> > I think the problem here is buried in the middle of the configure output: >> > it complains that AC_LIBTOOL_DLOPEN and AM_PROG_LIBTOOL are not found. >> > These are macros that it needs to create libtool, and both of them should >> > live in aclocal.m4. Is there a chance that aclocal.m4 was deleted or >> > corrupted? >> > >> > James >> > >> >> I did a new cvs checkout of hdf5 today. When I do an autoreconf, it >> fails: > > You're getting errors because HDF5 doesn't follow the GNU documentation > standard; that's why NEWS, README, etc. aren't present; we need to use > automake with the --foreign option to avoid those errors. You may also be > using different versions of the autotools than HDF5 does. Our > reconfiguration script is located at hdf5/bin/reconfigure. > > You shouldn't need to reconfigure in the first place, though. HDF5 > includes aclocal.m4 in its distribution. If you just check out a fresh > version of HDF5, you should get a fresh version of aclocal.m4. If > configure can't find that copy, then I'm not sure what's wrong. OK, that worked! I got the tip of the cvs tree, and launched straight into ./configure, and it built and installed on the Sun, no problem. Now I am trying to build netcdf-4 on the Sun and it is failing as well. But that's another kettle of fish... Thanks! Ed -- Ed Hartnett -- ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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