regenerate-makefiles.sh generates libtoolize linking error when compiling IRSTLM

Question

I'm having trouble getting IRSTLM to compile, due to an apparent problem linking to the ltmain.sh file in the libtool directories. I'm using Cygwin, by the way.

cook@mt-g66 /cygdrive/c/irstlm/trunk
$ ./regenerate-makefiles.sh
Calling /usr/bin/libtoolize
libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in '../..'.
libtoolize:   error: linking '/usr/share/libtool/build-aux/ltmain.sh' to '../../' failed
libtoolize failed

Could someone please point me in the right direction as to how to overcome this? I've double-checked that Cygwin installed libtool, but I'm very new to Cygwin, so there may be a step that I've overlooked. I have little experience of compiling applications generally, but have been unable to locate an installer version of IRSTLM.

Thanks

Answer 1

first of all you need to install the dependencies ...thats why you got something like this ibtoolize: error: linking '/usr/share/libtool/build-aux/ltmain.sh' to '../../' failed libtoolize failed

so follow the steps one by one ...

1. Get the source from here http://sourceforge.net/projects/irstlm/

2. Installing some dependencies

   sudo apt-get install build-essential sudo apt-get install automake sudo apt-get install libtool sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev

3. Extracting files

   sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/src/irstlm sudo chown username /usr/local/src/irstlm tar -xvzf irstlm.tgz -C /usr/local/src/irstlm

4. Compiling

   sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/irstlm sudo chown username /usr/local/lib/irstlm ./regenerate-makefiles.sh ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/lib/irstlm --enable-caching make -j 4

5. Installing

   make -j 4 install

good luck ..!

Answer 2

there's actually another situation that can cause the libtoolize that was not really addressed here. Permission and access issues. Consider the following situation: you're in virtualbox and trying to run libtoolize out of a VBox Shared folder, you will get this error. Move the project within the machine, error is gone.