From unknown Sat Aug 16 14:30:27 2025 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Subject: bug#32509: Why is Guile unable to find libtool? Resent-From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-libtool@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:20:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: report 32509 X-GNU-PR-Package: libtool X-GNU-PR-Keywords: To: Bruce Korb Cc: 32509@debbugs.gnu.org X-Debbugs-Original-Cc: bug-libtool@gnu.org Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.153503757227051 (code B ref -1); Thu, 23 Aug 2018 15:20:01 +0000 Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 23 Aug 2018 15:19:32 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59005 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fsrOW-00072F-CZ for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2018 11:19:32 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36873) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fsrOU-000722-Gp for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2018 11:19:31 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fsrON-0007yx-Ia for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2018 11:19:25 -0400 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::11]:47913) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fsrOI-0007ua-6N for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2018 11:19:19 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57624) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fsrOF-0007nh-0y for bug-libtool@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2018 11:19:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fsrO7-0007n4-Fa for bug-libtool@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Aug 2018 11:19:11 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:36215) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fsrO5-0007lW-0i; Thu, 23 Aug 2018 11:19:05 -0400 Received: from [193.50.110.186] (port=39842 helo=ribbon) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fsrO4-0000nL-7p; Thu, 23 Aug 2018 11:19:04 -0400 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) References: X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 6 Fructidor an 226 de la =?UTF-8?Q?R=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x090B11993D9AEBB5 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3CE4 6455 8A84 FDC6 9DB4 0CFB 090B 1199 3D9A EBB5 X-OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 17:19:02 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Bruce Korb's message of "Tue, 14 Aug 2018 08:28:05 -0700") Message-ID: <87in41m7q1.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::11 X-Spam-Score: -5.0 (-----) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -6.0 (------) Hi Bruce, Note that it=E2=80=99s libltdl that could not be found, not the =E2=80=98li= btool=E2=80=99 command (which comes with the Guile tarball), as suggested by the configure output you posted: $ ./configure ......... checking for libltdl... no configure: error: GNU libltdl (Libtool) not found, see README. Thus, on Debian and derivatives, you should run: apt-get install libltdl-dev See . HTH, Ludo=E2=80=99.