- From: Ken Olum <kdo@cosmos5.phy.tufts.edu>
- Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 17:21:23 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-lib@w3.org
Trying to configure libwww under Red Hat 6.2 I got a bunch of errors involving macro `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' not found in library and required file `./wwwconf.h.in' not found I found some discussion of this on the archive, but nothing that was useful to me. Since I've now solved this problem, I thought I would say what I had to do, so that the next person can find it. First of all, the statement in the build instructions that you should not be concerned about warnings in the configuration process is misleading. There are some warnings that are harmless, but other messages such as the "macro not found" above are actually fatal errors. Once you see this error, you should know that you have lost, and you should not proceed with subsequent steps. The cause of this error, in my case, was not having libtool installed. Once I realized this, I installed it, but that still did not work. The second problem was that the file libtool.m4 was put by the installation script in /usr/local/share/aclocal, whereas my aclocal program was looking for it in /usr/share/aclocal. Moving the file there solved the problem and I was able to configure. I realize that nothing about this has anything to do with libwww, but if you tell people to get the files straight from the CVS directory and configure them when all they want is to use the product, it might be helpful to point them in the right direction for problems like this. Thanks. Ken Olum
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