Christian, I think my problems are probably due to old versions of the tools. Here is the version information you requested. libtool 1.5.22 autoreconf 2.59 automake 1.9.6 Running autoreconf twice didn't help. John On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:56:43AM +0200, Christian Egli wrote: > Hi > > On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 09:56 -0500, John J. Boyer wrote: > > When I ran ./autogen.sh I got the message "required file ltmain.sh not > > found", then "automake failed with status 1". I am running Redhat > > Enterprise Linux. > > Hm, that's really bad news. All my nice changes up in smoke. Some > googling indicated that with old versions of autoreconf you might have > to run it twice to get libtoolize to run. libtoolize should copy > ltmain.sh. Can you run autoreconf twice and report your findings? Also > can you check the versions of autoreconf, libtool and automake as > follows: > $ autoreconf --version > $ libtool --version > $ automake --version > > 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