From: Marcus Sundberg <mackan@stacken.kth.se>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 12:49:30 +0000

Re: Makefile woes

Andrew Apted wrote:
> 
> [Gee I love this auto* stuff... NOT :->]
> 
> I just updated to automake-1.4 and autoconf 2.13, and I find that LibGII
> won't configure.  This is what I try:
> 
>    1. make maintainer-clean
>       Went OK.
> 
>    2. ./autogen.sh
>       Gives an error: "macro `AM_SYS_SYMBOL_UNDERSCORE' not found in
>       library" but otherwise works.
> 
>    3. ./configure
>       This breaks, the last dozen or so lines are:
> 
> >  ./configure: AM_SYS_SYMBOL_UNDERSCORE: command not found
> >  checking for gettimeofday... yes
> >  checking for select... yes
> >  checking for strdup... yes
> >  checking for usleep... yes
> >  checking for Sleep... no
> >  checking for dlopen... no
> >  checking for fcntl... yes
> >  checking for signal... yes
> >  checking for dlopen in -ldl... yes
> >  checking for pthread_mutex_init in -lpthread... yes
> >  checking if this system is known to have broken pthread mutexes... yes
> >  checking what kind of mutexes to use... ./configure: syntax error near unexpected token `AM_CONDITIONAL(PTLOCK,'
> >  ./configure: ./configure: line 2692: `AM_CONDITIONAL(PTLOCK, test "$mutextype" = "pthread")'

The AM_SYS_SYMBOL_UNDERSCORE is because you have a too old libtool,
you need at least version 1.2d.

The easiest way to ensure that everything works is to install in
the order autoconf, automake, libtool, and use the same prefix for
all of them.

//Marcus
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