This code is incorrect if test -z "${LIBTOOLIZE+set}" && ( glibtoolize --version ) >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then libtoolize=glibtoolize else libtoolize=${LIBTOOLIZE:-libtoolize} fi because it selects glibtoolsize over libtoolize, even if autoconf etc. have been installed by the user (me in this case) ahead of the ones defined by the operating system (MacOS in my case). Even worse, it then tells me: Checking if autotools are in the same location... no autoconf is in /Users/gropp automake is in /Users/gropp libtool is in /opt/local But here’s what I get: wdg-macbook: gropp$ which autoconf /Users/gropp/bin/autoconf wdg-macbook: gropp$ which automake /Users/gropp/bin/automake wdg-macbook: gropp$ which libtool /Users/gropp/bin/libtool wdg-macbook: gropp$ So: autogen.sh claims the libtool in the path is in /opt/local , which it is not, and autogen.sh claims that the tools are in directories that they are not in (it always dropped “bin” - there is no requirement that the directory path end in bin. I can work around these errors by setting LIBTOOLIZE, but I should not need to do that and I had to debug autogen.sh to discover what it really wanted. Bill William Gropp Director and Chief Scientist, NCSA Thomas M. Siebel Chair in Computer Science University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] To manage subscription options or unsubscribe: https://lists.mpich.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss