🔗 bootstrap.sh
The bootstrap.sh script runs a number of autotools to prepare ./configure and related magic. See DeveloperResources for the tools required by this script.
It doesn’t always work. Here are some errors and solutions:
🔗 Common problems
🔗 possibly undefined macro: AC_LTDL_DLLIB
This sometimes happens on Debian based systems:
Problem
configure.in:34 error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LTDL_DLLIB
If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
See the Autoconf documentation.
Solution
- install libltdl3-dev or libltdl7-dev
🔗 ‘ltdl.m4’ not found in ‘/usr/share/aclocal’
This sometimes happens on Debian based systems:
Problem
libtoolize: 'ltdl.m4' not found in '/usr/share/aclocal'
libtoolize failed
Autotool bootstrapping failed. You will need to investigate and correct
before you can develop on this source tree
Solution
- install libltdl7-dev