Subject: Re: gnome-games has libtool-1.52 / Autoconf problem (like libwww did)
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: Johnny C. Lam <jlam@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 02/12/2004 22:56:21
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 02:02:57PM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> I see that gnome-games has Autoconf problem like libwww did:
> 
>  cd /tmp/pkgsrc/games/gnome-games/work.bigfour/gnome-games-1.4.0.4 &&
>  /usr/pkg/bin/autoheader-2.13
>  FATAL ERROR: Autoconf version 2.50 or higher is required for this script
>  cd /tmp/pkgsrc/games/gnome-games/work.bigfour/gnome-games-1.4.0.4 &&
>  /usr/pkg/bin/automake-1.4 --add-missing --gnu
>  cd /tmp/pkgsrc/games/gnome-games/work.bigfour/gnome-games-1.4.0.4 &&
>  /usr/pkg/bin/autoconf-2.13
>  FATAL ERROR: Autoconf version 2.50 or higher is required for this script
>  *** Error code 2
> 
> My libwww problem was in PR pkg/24391. It was fixed and closed by
> minskim@. Thank you, Min Sik Kim.
> 
> I assume the gnome-games problem is related to libtool-1.5.2.
> 
> The libwww fix was to replace configure with the one generated by newer
> autoconf, and adjust Makefile accordingly.

That's not a scalable fix.  I think we should take a libtool.m4 from an
older libtool, stick it in ${WRKDIR} and when we invoke autoconf or
automake, we add ${WRKDIR} to the front of the search path for *.m4
files.

	Cheers,

	-- Johnny Lam <jlam@NetBSD.org>