From: Thomas Vander Stichele Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 15:16:12 +0000 (+0000) Subject: cvs questions X-Git-Tag: BRANCH-RELEASE-0_4_2-ROOT~14 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d3a08b87ec7746ad1ec5422b78f32f9c31baae44;p=platform%2Fupstream%2Fgstreamer.git cvs questions Original commit message from CVS: cvs questions --- diff --git a/docs/faq/cvs.xml b/docs/faq/cvs.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2d69cbb --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/faq/cvs.xml @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ + + Building GStreamer from CVS + + + + + +I ran autogen.sh, but it fails with something like this: + ++ 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 + +What's wrong ? + + + + +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. + + +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. + + +You can do three things to fix this : + +install automake in the same prefix as libtool +force use of the automake installed in the same prefix as libtool +by using the --with-automake option +figure out what prefix libtool has been installed to and point +aclocal to the right location by running + +export ACLOCAL_FLAGS="-I $(prefix)/share/aclocal" + +where you replace prefix with the prefix where libtool was installed. + + + + + +