[Expat-discuss] Mac OS X expertise needed

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake@acm.org
Wed Jul 10 11:38:02 2002


Fred L. Drake, Jr. writes:
 > I just tried building & testing the CVS version of Expat on the Mac OS
 > X 10.1 box on the SourceForge compile farm, and ran into what appears
 > to be a libtool glitch (using libtool 1.4.2):
 > 
 > The build proceeds just fine, but attempting to run the test suite
 > generates the following error:
 > 
 > tests/runtests: error: ~/src/expat-1.95.4/tests
 > /home/users/f/fd/fdrake/src/expat-1.95.4/tests/.libs/runtests does not exist
 > This script is just a wrapper for runtests.
 > See the libtool documentation for more information.
 > 
 > Installing the Expat library and then running the test suite (using
 > "make check") works fine, but we should be able to run the tests
 > without installing Expat.

Hmm.  I just ran into the same thing with Solaris 2.8.

I'm starting to really dislike libtool.  ;-(


  -Fred

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