Bug#201935: Libtool script used in your package needs updating

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hi Scott, hi Hilmar!

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

> While we're on the way: Is #201935 eventually fixed, cause teTeX-beta
> has switched to the standard way of using libtool? Or perhaps the
> described way of updating libtool works now....

I have tried this, but it seems to fail:

$ libtoolize -c -f
Remember to add `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' to `configure.in'.
Using `AC_PROG_RANLIB' is rendered obsolete by `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'
You should add the contents of `/usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4' to `aclocal.m4'.
Putting files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, `config'.
$ aclocal
aclocal: cannot open xdvik.ac: No such file or directory

So it seems that while it uses libtool, it doesn't use it the standard
way.

I also tried whether the bug has been fixed by upstream. I extracted the
sources of tetex-beta on casals.debian.org (they can be found in
/home/frank there, but it's not intended to be used for running tetex!)
and ran fakeroot debian/rules configure. However, the configure run
didn't succeed due to missing build dependencies. Before I bother the
admins to install them, I would be glad if you, Scott, could check

http://people.debian.org/~frank/mips-configure.log

whether there is any information in there from that you can judge
whether it will work or not - I have neither found the warning nor the
success message you pointed out.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie