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+<sect1 id="chapter-cvs">
+ <title id="title-cvs">Building GStreamer from CVS</title>
+ <qandaset>
+
+ <qandaentry>
+ <question id="cvs">
+ <para>
+I ran autogen.sh, but it fails with something like this:
+<programlisting>
++ running aclocal -I m4 -I common/m4 ...
+aclocal: configure.ac: 8: macro `AM_DISABLE_STATIC' not found in library
+aclocal: configure.ac: 17: macro `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' not found in library
+aclocal failed
+</programlisting>
+What's wrong ?
+ </question>
+
+ <answer>
+ <para>
+aclocal is unable to find two macros installed by libtool in a file called
+libtool.m4. Normally this would indicate that you don't have libtool, but
+that would mean autogen.sh would have failed on not finding libtool.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+It is more likely that you installed automake (which provides aclocal) in
+a different prefix than libtool. You can check this by examining in what
+prefix both aclocal and libtool are installed.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+You can do three things to fix this :
+<orderedlist>
+<listitem>install automake in the same prefix as libtool
+<listitem>force use of the automake installed in the same prefix as libtool
+by using the --with-automake option
+<listitem>figure out what prefix libtool has been installed to and point
+aclocal to the right location by running
+<programlisting>
+export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I $(prefix)/share/aclocal"
+</programlisting>
+where you replace prefix with the prefix where libtool was installed.
+</orderedlist>
+ </para>
+ </answer>
+ </qandaentry>
+ </qandaset>
+</sect1>