Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] What does the libtool stuff do for us?

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From: Jerry Talkington <jerryt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 10:48:47 -0800
* Gilbert Ramirez (gram@xxxxxxxxxx) done spit this rhetoric:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 12:03:36PM -0600, Florian Lohoff wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > The libtool things are currently not nice ..
> 
> I'm also having some problems. I'm able to use it fine at home (Debian
> system), with libtool-1.3.4 installed by hand, but at work (RedHat system)
> I'm having problems.
> 
> Here's a log of my session. I do a new cvs checkout of the Ethereal
> source tree, (with most of the lines deleted from this log for
> brevity), I show the versions of the tools I have, then autoconf
> fails; for some reason it's not reading acinclude.m4 to get the
> AC_ETHEREAL_* macros!

I had the same problem after installing into /usr/local/ .  Cleared up
after I configured libtool with --prefix=/usr .

-- 
Jerry Talkington
NetCache Escalation Engineer
Network Appliance, Inc.

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