On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Dr Andrew John Hughes <ahughes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > No. Can you give the versions of the autotools on this platform? That would > be more generally useful. It's likely to be that something has been updated. > > Personally, I have autoconf 2.68, automake 1.11.1 and libtool 2.4 here on Gentoo. Strange. I have the exact same versions: [penberg@tux ~]$ autoconf --version autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.68 Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>, <http://gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille. [penberg@tux ~]$ automake --version automake (GNU automake) 1.11.1 Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by Tom Tromey <tromey@xxxxxxxxxx> and Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@xxxxxxx>. [penberg@tux ~]$ libtool --version libtool (GNU libtool) 2.4 Written by Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, 1996 Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. What else could it be? I have m4 1.4.16 here: [penberg@tux classpath.git]$ m4 --version m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.16 Pekka