Software compilation woes

[Chris Neary]

Hello list.

So, I'm having problems compiling some software (in particular, the
svn release of gmpc, which requires the svn release of libmpd at
http://svn.qballcow.nl and http://svn.musicpd.org, respectively.

(It's not really relevant at all, but for those who don't know, MPD is
a [rather fabulous] daemon which plays music through the host speakers
or through a networked ESD daemon. The clients are written separately
by fans of the software and in particular gmpc is probably the most
popular)

Back on track:

To install MPD originally I had to grab the automake and friends tools
from fto.gnu.org and install them manually - there was no up-to-date
deb in the repositories (I think MPD needed automake >=1.6 but only
1.4 was available).

So somewhere down the line I think I've installed something in the
wrong place (According to Google I may have installed libtool outside
of the aclocal/automake/etc search path) and that's stopping aclocal
from being run in the autogen.sh files.

Here's the output of when I tried to run ./autogen.sh in the source
tree of libmpd from the svn repository above:

$> ./autogen.sh
aclocal:configure.ac:7: warning: macro `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' not found in library
You should update your `aclocal.m4' by running aclocal.
configure.ac: installing `./install-sh'
configure.ac: installing `./missing'
src/Makefile.am:6: Libtool library used but `LIBTOOL' is undefined
src/Makefile.am:6:
src/Makefile.am:6: The usual way to define `LIBTOOL' is to add `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'
src/Makefile.am:6: to `configure.ac' and run `aclocal' and `autoconf' again.
src/Makefile.am: installing `./depcomp'
Makefile.am: installing `./INSTALL'
Makefile.am: installing `./COPYING'
configure.ac:6: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.ac:7: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_PROG_LIBTOOL

And, rather bafflingly, here is the content of the configure.ac file:

AC_INIT(src)
AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(libmpd, 0.12.4, qball at qballcow.nl)

AC_PROG_CC
AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL
AM_PROG_LIBTOOL

AC_REPLACE_FUNCS(strndup)

EXTRA_CFLAGS=
EXTRA_LDFLAGS=
case $host in
  *-*-mingw32* | *-*-windows)
    EXTRA_CFLAGS="-mno-cygwin -mwindows -mms-bitfields
-fno-strict-aliasing -DMPD_NO_IPV6"
    EXTRA_LDFLAGS="-export-all-symbols -mwindows -no-undefined -lregex
-lws2_32 -mms-bitfields" ;;
  *-*-cygwin*)
    EXTRA_CFLAGS="-fno-strict-aliasing"
    EXTRA_LDFLAGS="-export-all-symbols -mms-bitfields";;
esac
AC_SUBST(EXTRA_CFLAGS)
AC_SUBST(EXTRA_LDFLAGS)

# Checks for header files.
AC_HEADER_STDC
AC_CHECK_HEADERS([stdlib.h string.h unistd.h])
AC_CHECK_HEADER([regex.h], [],
                [AC_MSG_ERROR([Required header regex.h not found.])])

AC_OUTPUT([
Makefile
src/Makefile
doc/Makefile
example/Makefile
example/testcase/Makefile
libmpd.pc
])

As you can see, the configure.ac file alredy has  'AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'
in it, despite the error message telling me I ought to put it there.

Would it help things along to downgrade to version 1.4 of
automake/autotools? And how is this best done cleanly?

Thanks, and please forgive the large portions of pasted output.

Chris