check fails

[Axel Hutt]

Brian Gough wrote:

> Axel Hutt writes:
>  > I have updated gsl 1.3 by cvs, made a 'make check' after calling
>  > configure with disabled shared libs and running 'make' I used gcc
>  > 3.3 on Redhat 7.0 Linux 2.4.18 on a laptop with Pentium II .  What
>  > can I do here? The notes in INSTALL did not help me out i.e. I
>  > tried enabled/disabled shared libs and updated gcc from 2.96 to 3.3
>  > Thanks in advance for any hint.
> 
> I've experienced this myself and it comes from the configure script
> not detecting the function hypot() correctly (e.g. when it is an
> inline function / macro).
> 
> I recently changed all the autoconf/automake related files to use
> autoconf-2.57 which should fix this.
> 
> Try ./autogen.sh to regenerate all the files.

running ./autogen.sh, I get


warning: `configure.ac' and `configure.in' both present.
  at /home/unix/stat/hutt/software/automake_recent_version/bin/aclocal 
line 59
warning: proceeding with `configure.ac'.
  at /home/unix/stat/hutt/software/automake_recent_version/bin/aclocal 
line 59
warning: `configure.ac' and `configure.in' both present.
  at /home/unix/stat/hutt/software/automake_recent_version/bin/automake 
line 5399
warning: proceeding with `configure.ac'.
  at /home/unix/stat/hutt/software/automake_recent_version/bin/automake 
line 5399
Makefile.am:18: Libtool library used but `LIBTOOL' is undefined
Makefile.am:18:
Makefile.am:18: The usual way to define `LIBTOOL' is to add 
`AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'
Makefile.am:18: to `configure.ac' and run `aclocal' and `autoconf' again.
...........


although AC_PROG_LIBTOOL is present in configure.ac:

..
dnl Checks for programs.
AC_LANG(C)
AC_PROG_CC
AC_PROG_CPP
AC_PROG_INSTALL
AC_PROG_LN_S
AC_CHECK_TOOL(RANLIB, ranlib, :)
AC_CHECK_TOOL(AR, ar, :)
#AC_PROG_RANLIB
AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
...

???????????????


Axel