[libvirt] autogen.sh broken on RHEL5

[Eric Blake]

[adding bug-gnulib]

On 04/19/2012 03:51 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 
> 
> $ ./autogen.sh  --system
> Running ./configure with --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --libdir=/usr/lib64 
> running bootstrap...
> ./bootstrap: Bootstrapping from checked-out http://libvirt.org sources...
> ./bootstrap: consider installing git-merge-changelog from gnulib
> ./bootstrap: getting gnulib files...
> ./bootstrap: autopoint --force
> Copying file build-aux/config.rpath
> running: libtoolize --copy --install
> libtoolize: unrecognized option `--install'
> Try `libtoolize --help' for more information.
> 
> 
> There is no such '--install' option - is that even needed - AFAIK that is
> the default behaviour ?

Looks like this has been broken since Jim's gnulib commit in December:

commit 767ccd40dadbeb4b1480a235ec4bacbcd50276cd
Author: Jim Meyering <meyering at redhat.com>
Date:   Sat Dec 17 17:00:44 2011 +0100

    bootstrap: remove some now-unneeded code

    This script arose back when gnulib-tool was young.
    Since then, it has seen improvements that render much of this
    script unnecessary.  In particular, it can now make symlinks
    to the files it uses.  Also, I no longer see as much value in
    marking files as read-only via comments.
    If you relied on the symlink-creation feature of the preceding
    version of this script, you can get most of that functionality
    by adding the --symlink option to the definition of
    gnulib_tool_option_extras in your bootstrap.conf file.

Jim obviously didn't test with the ancient libtool of RHEL5.  I'll see
if I can find time to fix this in gnulib, then update libvirt to the
latest gnulib.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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