xserver-inst2.sh fails

Donnie Berkholz spyderous@gentoo.org
Sun, 18 Jan 2004 00:03:50 -0500 (EST)


Kurt Hindenburg <khindenburg@cherrynebula.net> wrote:
> * Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr> [2004-01-17 06:51 EST] wrote :
>> ~/Xdmcp ~
>> autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
>> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
>> autoreconf: running: aclocal  --output=aclocal.m4t
>> aclocal: configure.ac: 39: macro `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' not found in
>> library autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
>>
> In the script you'll see 2 lines for WANT_AUTOMAKE/AUTOCONF.  I had to
> uncomment them to get xserver to compile on my system.  Uncomment 1 or
> both of the lines and then try to build it again.

Probably an artifact of Gentoo's autoconf and automake wrapper scripts,
which stupidly (IMHO) default to the OLDEST version instead of the newest.