[vlc-devel] [PATCH 1/3] tools: require libtool along with automake

[Rafaël Carré]

On 07/17/14 13:45, Sean McGovern wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 6:22 AM, Rafaël Carré <funman at videolan.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 07/16/14 00:26, Sean McGovern wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 5:54 AM, Rafaël Carré <funman at videolan.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 07/03/14 01:54, Sean McGovern wrote:
>>>>> ---
>>>>>  extras/tools/tools.mak |    2 +-
>>>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/extras/tools/tools.mak b/extras/tools/tools.mak
>>>>> index d88ea63..7c426b8 100644
>>>>> --- a/extras/tools/tools.mak
>>>>> +++ b/extras/tools/tools.mak
>>>>> @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ automake: automake-$(AUTOMAKE_VERSION).tar.gz
>>>>>       $(UNPACK)
>>>>>       $(MOVE)
>>>>>
>>>>> -.automake: automake .autoconf
>>>>> +.automake: automake .autoconf .libtool
>>>>>       (cd $<; ./configure --prefix=$(PREFIX) && $(MAKE) && $(MAKE)
>>>> install)
>>>>>       touch $@
>>>>
>>>> Do we actually use make check?
>>>> libtool is apparently only used for tests
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm not sure about the only used for tests part, but my recent issues
>> with
>>> building fribidi after Rafaël's patch are fixed with this applied.
>>
>> Is libtool not built otherwise?
>>
>>
> In my case it isn't as I do have it already as /usr/bin/libtool (it's even
> the same version -- 2.4.2 !). Not sure why it doesn't pick that up -- do it
> and auto* have to live in the same bin/ directory?

Hmm perhaps it is needed for aclocal to find lt*.m4