Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] What does the libtool stuff do for us?

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 13:08:47 -0600
On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 12:57:09PM -0600, Jerry Talkington wrote:
> 
> 
> * Gilbert Ramirez (gram@xxxxxxxxxx) done spit this rhetoric:
> > On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 12:03:36PM -0600, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > The libtool things are currently not nice ..
> >
> > I'm also having some problems. I'm able to use it fine at home (Debian
> > system), with libtool-1.3.4 installed by hand, but at work (RedHat 
> system)
> > I'm having problems.
> >
> > Here's a log of my session. I do a new cvs checkout of the Ethereal
> > source tree, (with most of the lines deleted from this log for
> > brevity), I show the versions of the tools I have, then autoconf
> > fails; for some reason it's not reading acinclude.m4 to get the
> > AC_ETHEREAL_* macros!
> 
> I had the same problem after installing into /usr/local/ .  Cleared up
> after I configured libtool with --prefix=/usr .

Wow! Thanks, that fixed the problem.

--gilbert