[Xapian-discuss] problem compiling xapian-bindings-0.8.0 on FreeBSD 5.2.1

[James Cronin]

> phpize creates a mini-project which uses autoconf/automake/libtool. 
> 
> This smells to me like this project doesn't work with automake 1.8.5,
> but sadly there may not be much we can do about that.
> 
> I'd suggest perhaps trying automake 1.7 or 1.6 (I'm current using 1.6.3).
> I didn't even realise there was a 1.8!

Just recompiled everything and tried it with:

autoconf 2.5.7
automake 1.7.9
libtool 1.3.5

and still teh same prob :(
 
> > configure.in:65: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
> >       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
> >       See the Autoconf documentation.
> 
> My other thought is to check that autoconf, automake, and libtool were
> all configured and installed with the same prefix.  If they aren't, then
> they can't find each others macros.

They were - I'm trying to reduce the amount of 'tweaking' on this system
to make its build state as reproducable as possible, so I'm using the
versions in the FreeBSD ports collection.

J.