CVS compilation under RH 9.0

[catdog]

I have a quick one, maybe I am going against the wall. Has anybody successfully compiled CVS under Red Hat 9.0? I am having difficulties, it crashes after 100 minutes of compilation on PIV 1.8GHz.
RH 9.0, fully updated, automake compiled from source to upgrade 1.6.3-5 to 1.7.1 and the same with gettext from 0.11.4-7 to 0.12.1. (gcc 3.2.2-5)
The error message is below:

cd /home/dreambox/tuxbox-cvs/apps/tuxbox/libtuxbox && ./autogen.sh && CC=powerpc-tuxbox-linux-gnu-gcc CXX=powerpc-tuxbox-linux-gnu-g++ CFLAGS="-Wall -mcpu=405 -mmultiple -mstring -meabi -pipe -O2 -g3 -gdwarf-2" CXXFLAGS="-Wall -mcpu=405 -mmultiple -mstring -meabi -pipe -O2 -g3 -gdwarf-2" ./configure --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --host=powerpc-tuxbox-linux-gnu --prefix=/home/dreambox/dbox2/cdkroot --with-driver=/home/dreambox/tuxbox-cvs/driver --with-dvbincludes=/home/dreambox/tuxbox-cvs/driver/dvb/include --with-target=cdk --enable-maintainer-mode
Generating configuration files for libtuxbox, please wait....
aclocal
aclocal: configure.ac: 8: macro `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' not found in library
libtoolize --automake
autoconf
autoheader
autoheader: error: AC_CONFIG_HEADERS not found in configure.ac
automake --add-missing
configure.ac: no proper invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE was found.
configure.ac: You should verify that configure.ac invokes AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE,
configure.ac: that aclocal.m4 is present in the top-level directory,
configure.ac: and that aclocal.m4 was recently regenerated (using aclocal).
Makefile.am:1: Libtool library used but `LIBTOOL' is undefined
Makefile.am:1:
Makefile.am:1: The usual way to define `LIBTOOL' is to add `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'
Makefile.am:1: to `configure.ac' and run `aclocal' and `autoconf' again.
/usr/local/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am: am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/usr/local/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am: AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
make: *** [/home/dreambox/tuxbox-cvs/apps/tuxbox/libtuxbox/config.status] Error 1

(I hope that I am posting in the correct forum???)

Thanks,

CD

[Houdini]

Hi catdog
pls check that your system has following versions installed as described in cdk/doc/INSTALL.EN

- autoconf >= 2.52h
- automake >= 1.7
- libtool >= 1.4.2
- gettext >= 0.12.1

Regards
Houdini

[catdog]

Hi catdog
pls check that your system has following versions installed as described in cdk/doc/INSTALL.EN


-----------> installed version
- autoconf >= 2.52h 2.57.3
- automake >= 1.7 1.7.1
- libtool >= 1.4.2 1.4.3.5
- gettext >= 0.12.1 0.12.1

Regards
Houdini

Hi Houdini, this is the first thing that I have before posting here.

It seems like an issue with compilation of fribidi-0.10.4. I can compile all other targets sucessfully including devel except of "make apps" where it fails on the second application fribidi with the above error, which is generated by autogen.sh.

Would you have any idea where should I look for clues?


Thanks. CatDog.

[catdog]

I think I will be voted the most self sufficient man. Asking questions and answering them at the same time.

libtool in version 1.4.3 is too old, upgrading to 1.5.2 solved the issue. Now, if some maintainer reads this, it would be a good idea to add it to INSTALL.en section PREREQUISITIES. However I can not comment on which is the minimum version to work.