(trunk) #3901 "Confusing error message when libtool is missing" -- fixed.

autogen.sh invokes autoreconf without checking to see if it fails (as it does if libtool can't be found). In such cases it also invokes a broken doomed version of the configure script, which generates a lot of red herring messages that distract from the real problem encountered by autoreconf.

The fix is to exit autogen.sh if its call to autoreconf fails.

diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh
index 9273b99236fb0ecfc828f81c4b26c997b45ba27c..56f2b745d0e2925ff0990694ad46e16c9fee4d17 100755 (executable)
--- a/autogen.sh
+++ b/autogen.sh
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ export LIBTOOLIZE
 ./update-version-h.sh
 
 autoreconf -fi
+if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
+  exit 1
+fi
+
 
 if test "$GETTEXTIZE"; then
   echo "Creating aclocal.m4 ..."