[bug] Building from git fails with new libtool

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I'm building gst on Ubuntu 8.10 which is using libtool 2.2.4.  When
running configure many macros appear to be broken.  And make then
fails.  My rough guess is that build-aux/libtool-tag.m4 is using a
macro that no longer exists in 2.2.4.

Attached is the output from the autoreconf and configure scripts.

The pertinent (I believe) lines are at line 302:
./configure: line 17114: =$: command not found




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 Updated by:   bonzinip
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Yes, you should use "autoreconf -fv", not "-fvi", to use exactly the
libtool that is in the repository.  I'll switch to 2.2.x soonish
though.




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Aha!

Great news,  I was hoping I wasn't going to have to tear apart my
toolchain to get it to work.




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> -Status:       invalid
> +Status:       won't fix

It's actually "invalid" because you didn't follow the build instructions
:-) (another case for closing as invalid is unveiling bugs in other
packages). "won't fix" means it's too hard to fix it, it would break
compatibility too much, or things like that.

No big deal though.

Paolo



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