Debian installation error in autogen.sh

[Michel Dänzer]

On Die, 2011-01-25 at 19:56 +0000, Bruno Mendoza wrote:
> HI all,
> 
> I'm trying to install radeon controller in Debian Lenny with kernel
> 2.6.26-2-686 with a monitor LG W2454TQ and a graphic card R710 (954f)
> but I get errors in "autogen.sh" execution script. I'm trying this
> because I can't get resolution 1920x1080 pixels.
> 
> The radeon controller version installed with Debian official
> repositores is 6.9. I thought that If I install lastest stable version
> of this driver I will solve this problem. To make this I have followed
> the guide at http://wiki.x.org/wiki/radeonBuildHowTo#Stablebranch but
> I got the following error executing autogen.sh:

Beware that the 6.12 branch is getting rather old as well.


> autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
> autoreconf: running: aclocal 
> autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
> autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf
> autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader
> autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --no-force
> src/Makefile.am:81: Libtool library used but `LIBTOOL' is undefined
> src/Makefile.am:81:   The usual way to define `LIBTOOL' is to add
> `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'
> src/Makefile.am:81:   to `configure.ac' and run `aclocal' and
> `autoconf' again.
> src/Makefile.am:81:   If `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' is in `configure.ac', make
> sure
> src/Makefile.am:81:   its definition is in aclocal's search path.
> autoreconf: automake failed with exit status: 1

Installing the libtool package should overcome this particular problem.
However, you may encounter more similar problems, at least some of which
you might avoid by building from a release tarball instead of from Git.


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