[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

richard.coe@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I retrieved the latest ethereal 0.10.7 and tried building it, and
> I get the following errors with automake-1.9.2:
>
> Checking for python.
> processing .
> aclocal -I ./aclocal-fallback
> aclocal:configure.in:13: warning: macro `AM_DISABLE_STATIC' not found in library
> aclocal:configure.in:1195: warning: macro `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' not found in library

Those both sound libtool-related (the latter obviously; the former, from 
the "static", possibly).

It might be that automake-1.9[.x] requires a newer version of libtool, 
e.g. one of the development releases.

(The last time we upgraded to require a newer version of autoconf or 
automake - I forget which one started it - we ended up having to require 
newer versions of the other one of the two auto*'s, as well as a newer 
version of libtool.  It's be Really Nice if the Web pages for each of 
those tools specified the minimum versions of the other two tools for 
the current version, and development versions, of the tool.)

> I don't get these errors with automake-1.7.7

Or it might be that, if you have two versions of automake installed, or 
you un-installed one and installed the other, that libtool's stuff is 
accessible to automake-1.7.7 but not to automake-1.9.2 (if both are 
installed, libtool might have installed its stuff in the place where 
automake-1.7.7 expects them to be, and that, as a result of being 
installed in a different location, e.g. under "/usr" vs. under 
"/usr/local", automake-1.9.2 isn't looking there).