Re: failed build

[Ben Abbott]

On Jul 27, 2010, at 9:22 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

> On 27 July 2010 20:15, Michael D Godfrey <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 07/27/2010 05:41 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
>> 
>>  79 # Sed that helps us avoid accidentally triggering echo(1) options like
>> -n.
>>  80 Xsed="$SED -e 1s/^X//"
>> 
>> 471 # Check that we have a working $echo.
>> 472 if test "X$1" = X--no-reexec; then
>> 473   # Discard the --no-reexec flag, and continue.
>> 474   shift
>> 
>> 
>> These lines exist in my (Linux) libtool which works.
>> 
> 
> My libtool seems to be very different (I think it's version 2.2.6b),
> but this is starting to look like a red herring.
> 
> Can you try to rebuild from a pristine source tree? Since you haven't
> built in a long time, it's likely that you would have to rebuild all
> or almost all of the sources anyways, with all the changes that have
> been going on.
> 
> I'm tracking the development sources nowadays, and I seem to need to
> regularly rebuild most of Octave. I understand that this is an
> acceptable state of affairs.

My libtool is 2.2.10 ... or I thought it was. After you comment I took a closer 
look. My package manager had removed 2.2.10 and replaced it with 2.1.14 to 
update something else.

With the correct libtool active the build is going as it should.

Sorry for the noise.

Ben