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I am trying to install guile locally on a system. It requires gnu/libtool. While installing all its dependencies, the "make check" command showed errors while installing gnu/libtool. But if I omitted the command and simply ran "make" followed by "make install", then it was able to install successfully. I was able to install the rest of the dependencies without any problem. However, when I run the following command, then I am getting the below mentioned error:

Command:

../configure --with-libltdl-prefix=$PREFIX/libtool --with-libgmp-prefix=$PREFIX/gmp --with-libunistring-prefix=$PREFIX/libunistring --with-libiconv-prefix=$PREFIX/libiconv --with-libreadline-prefix=$PREFIX/libreadline --with-libintl-prefix=$PREFIX/gettext --prefix=$PREFIX/guile

Error:

configure: error: GNU libltdl (Libtool) not found, see README.

the $PREFIX is defined and I have installed the libltdl library in the libtool folder. When I look through the include and lib sub directories of the libtool folder, I can find the libltdl folders and .so files.

So, I am unsure as to why the configure script is not able to find the locally installed version of libtool. I will be highly grateful if someone can point out the problem in the command and how to remedy this error.

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  • Let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/95207/discussion-between-python-user-and-chris-jester-young). – Python_user Nov 16 '15 at 06:14
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    Did you fix this issue? I have the same problem now. – Jeff.Lu Oct 21 '16 at 06:50
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    So, how is this issue solved? I'm having a similar issue after upgrading my ubuntu to 18.04. guile complained that it can't find libunistring.so then I tried to compile and install where configure threw an error about not finding libltdl.so. I tried setting LDFLAGS and libltdl-with-prefix flags one at a time but didn't solve it. – Misgevolution Sep 17 '19 at 06:54
  • did you ever figure this out? I'm having the same problem. – Levi Jul 02 '23 at 00:28
  • @Levi This was looong time ago. I believe I gave up on this and I had to retake a different approach. – Python_user Aug 11 '23 at 08:30

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I had a similar issue when trying to compile bind9 using distcc under Rasbian. I had previously installed the package libtool but I was also missing the package libtool-bin. That solved my issue. Try

apt list libtool* --installed

and see if both show up.

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