Christian, I am pasting the autogen.log file you requested below. It seems to me that the developers should get the latest versions of the tools. The real question is whether people who just download the releases and compile them will have problems. -------------------- Cleaning autotools files... Running autoreconf... configure.ac: installing `./install-sh' configure.ac: installing `./missing' doc/Makefile.am:14: installing `doc/mdate-sh' doc/Makefile.am:14: installing `doc/texinfo.tex' gnulib/Makefile.am: installing `./depcomp' configure.ac:14: installing `./config.guess' configure.ac:14: installing `./config.sub' configure.ac:67: required file `./ltmain.sh' not found autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1 On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 01:45:29PM +0200, Christian Egli wrote: > Hi all > > On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 05:09 -0500, John J. Boyer wrote: > > I think my problems are probably due to old versions of the tools. Here > > is the version information you requested. > > I think we actually have two problems here: 1) Lars's problem might be > to do with libtool. Gnulib seems to trigger some libtool problem (at > least with older versions of libtool). 2) John's problem seems to be in > interaction between autoreconf and libtool. I'm a bit stumped as to what > the problems might be. I will have to take the issues to the respective > mailing lists. Since I cannot reproduce the problem with my installation > (automake 1.10.2, autoconf 2.63, libtool 2.2.6) I would appreciate if > you John could give me the exact output of the autogen.sh command, i.e. > pipe the output into a file and send that to me as follows: > $ ./autogen.sh > autogen.log 2>&1 > > Thanks > Christian > -- > Christian Egli > Swiss Library for the Blind and Visually Impaired > Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland > > For a description of the software and to download it go to > http://www.jjb-software.com -- My websites: GodTouches Digital Ministry, Inc. http://www.godtouches.org Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Location: Madison, WI, USA For a description of the software and to download it go to http://www.jjb-software.com