Re: ./configure --enable-local

Thank you, Geert and Alexey,
    The libtool problem is solved thanks to your help and process of
elimination and make file "no" was not an issue just a note as to which
version of make is loaded.

    The problem was a missing step in the ubuntu OS prep (I started
with a bare machine install).

sudo apt-get install libtool-bin

was required before things worked (it did take a while to figure out
the -bin part of the name)

Again, thanks for bearing with me on this one. It is the first time in
all my years I needed to use the mail list help.

Bill




On Fri, 2018-02-23 at 19:07 +0100, Geert Stappers wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 09:12:23AM -0800, Alexey Neyman wrote:
> > 
> > On 02/23/2018 08:46 AM, William Main wrote:
> > > 
> > > Dear Alexey,
> > >      I am new to YOCTO but experienced in other emddeded systems.
> > > I am
> > > following recipes in a book published in June 2017 by Chris
> > > Symmonds
> > > "Mastering Embedded Linux Programming" and am stuck on pg 29
> > > which is
> > > frustrating.
> > >  I have become stuck for two days now on the error show below
> > > even
> > > though I have confirmed the two files showing issues are present
> > > and
> > > installed.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Setting up libtool (2.4.6-0.1)  << this is what is installed
> > > 
> > > $ sudo apt-get install make
> > > Reading package lists... Done
> > > Building dependency tree
> > > Reading state information... Done
> > > make is already the newest version (4.1-6).  << definitely
> > > installed
> > > make set to manually installed.
> > > 
> > > git clone https://github.com/crosstool-ng/crosstool-ng.git
> > >     lots of output and succeeded
> > > cd crosstool-ng
> > > git checkout crosstool-ng-1.22.0
> > >     lots of output and succeeded
> > > $ ./bootstrap
> > > succeeded
> > > then the issue begins
> > > 
> > > william@NEMT-Yocto:~/crosstool-ng$ ./configure --enable-local
> > >         lots of output that looks ok then --
> > > checking for make 3.81... no
> > > checking for GNU libtool >= 1.5.26... no
> > > configure: error: could not find GNU libtool >= 1.5.26
> > > 
> > > 
> > > system details:
> > > Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
> > > Description:	Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
> > > Release:	16.04
> > > Codename:	xenial
> > > 
> > > crosstool-ng-1.22.0
> > > 
> > > can you either shed some light on what is going wrong or point me
> > > to
> > > where I might find help?
> > > 
> > > Again, I apologize for the interruption.
> > > 
> > > Bill Main
> > > [email protected]
> > > 
> > First, do not write to me personally. I will not respond to private
> > questions like that - if there is an issue that needs explanation,
> > a
> > question on a archived  mailing list will benefit all of the
> > community, not just you.
> > 
> > As to your question: with any question regarding configure, the
> > config.log should be provided. That's the basic rule for any
> > configure-based project so you should've been aware of that.
> > 
> > For both make and libtool, configure tries to check their versions
> > by invoking them with --version and then trying to match the
> > following regexps:
> > 
> > ^GNU Make (3.[89][[:digit:]]|[4-9])
> > \(GNU libtool.*\)
> > (2[[:digit:]]*\.|1\.6[[:digit:]]*\.|1\.5\.[2-9][[:digit:]]+)
> > 
> > So:
> > - Ensure that the versions of make/libtool you've installed are
> > available in the $PATH (and not preceded in $PATH by some outdated
> > version, e.g. in your $HOME/bin).
> > - See what your `make --version` and `libtool --version` print and
> > see if it matches the regexps above.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Alexey.
> 
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> 
> Groeten
> Geert Stappers