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Autotools

by John Calcote
July 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
360 pages
11h 12m
English
No Starch Press
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Installing Libtool

If you want to make use of the latest version of Libtool while developing your packages, you may find that you either have to download, build, and install it manually or look for an updated libtool package from your distribution provider.

Downloading, building, and installing Libtool is really trivial, as you'll see here. However, you should check the GNU Libtool website[86] before executing these steps in order to ensure you're getting the most recent package:

$ wget ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.2.6a.tar.gz
...
$ tar xzf libtool-2.2.6a.tar.gz
$ cd libtool-2.2.6a
$ ./configure && make
...
$ sudo make install
...

Be aware that the default installation location (as with most of the GNU packages) is /usr/local. If you wish to ...

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