> > On the machines where this apparently works, AC_PROG_LIBTOOL is in > > aclocal.m4, but on subdirs where it does not work, AC_PROG_LIBTOOL is > > *not* in aclocal.m4 > How do you invoke the subdir configure scripts from inside of your > toplevel configure script? The bootstrap script runs 'autoreconf -v -i' from the top-level, and configure.ac contains: AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS(subdir) > Can you post the output of running > autoreconf -fv > > from the toplevel source dir? autoreconf: Entering directory `.' autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4 -I libopts/m4 autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing autoreconf: configure.ac: subdirectory arlib to autoreconf autoreconf: Entering directory `arlib' autoreconf: configure.in: not using Gettext autoreconf: running: aclocal --force autoreconf: configure.in: tracing autoreconf: configure.in: not using Libtool autoreconf: running: /opt/TWWfsw/autoconf25/bin/autoconf --force autoreconf: configure.in: not using Autoheader autoreconf: running: automake --force-missing autoreconf: Leaving directory `arlib' autoreconf: configure.ac: subdirectory sntp to autoreconf autoreconf: Entering directory `sntp' autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I libopts/m4 autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool configure.ac:9: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation. autoreconf: /opt/TWWfsw/autoconf25/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1 While the 3-line configure.ac I posted the other day ( AC_INIT(foo, 1.0, me@xxxxxxxxxxx) AC_PROG_LIBTOOL AC_OUTPUT ) shows the problem, if you want the whole beast it's: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ntp_spool/ntp4/ntp-dev/ntp-dev-4.2.3p12.tar.gz and that tarball contains working copies of everything. If you fetch this tarball and extract it all, running 'autoreconf -vf' in the top-level directory of the package will either work or fail. If it works, your system is like *most* of mine. If it fails, your system is like *some* of mine. H _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf