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macro `AM_PATH_CPPUNIT' not found in library

I am trying to build libtorrent on shared hosting. So built CPPUnit(1.12.1) with --prefix=$HOME. After that my $HOME/lib and $HOME/include contains CPPUnit libraries and headers.

The I exported LD_ paths

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_INCLUDE_PATH=$HOME/include:$LD_INCLUDE_PATH

Then I run libtorrent/autogen.sh --prefix=$HOME and getting the following warning, which prevents me to run configure:

aclocal...
aclocal:configure.ac:20: warning: macro `AM_PATH_CPPUNIT' not found in library

cppunit.m4 file is located in $HOME/share/aclocal. I guess libtorrent can't find that dir for some reason.

Solution

  • You installed CPPUnit in a non-system place that's not searched by default, so oddly enough when running aclocal within the libtorrent build, it didn't know to look there. You can tell aclocal where to look with -I and I'm sure you can find a way to do that with autogen.sh in the middle.