Can't build libgphoto2 2.5.9.1 on OSX, libltdl error

[gschwim]

On OSX w/ homebrew and xcode.

I acquired the source as follows:

git clone https://github.com/gphoto/libgphoto2

I run autoreconf then ./configure and get the following error:

checking that we can compile and link with libltdl... no
configure: error: cannot compile and link against libltdl
libgphoto2 requires libltdl (the libtool dl* library),
but cannot compile and link against it.
Aborting.

I'm able to repeat this on two different macs. I'm able to compile fine on Ubuntu.

[msmeissn]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 11:16:39PM -0800, gschwim wrote:

On OSX w/ homebrew and xcode.

I acquired the source as follows:

git clone https://github.com/gphoto/libgphoto2

I run autoreconf then ./configure and get the following error:

checking that we can compile and link with libltdl... no
configure: error: cannot compile and link against libltdl
libgphoto2 requires libltdl (the libtool dl* library),
but cannot compile and link against it.
Aborting.

I'm able to repeat this on two different macs. I'm able to compile fine on Ubuntu.

Alternatively you can download the sourcetarball from http://sf.net/projects/gphoto/

Well, is there a libtool development or libltdl development package on MacOS?

I am not sure about the naming.

(The Travis CI builds find it nicely though, so there must be a package somewhere.)

Ciao, Marcus

[gschwim]

The source tarball is 2.5.8. I'm after the sony bulb capabilities that appear to be in 2.5.9.1.

There is a libtool install for homebrew, but not sure that it is providing 100% of what is needed. Oddly, the default homebrew recipe for libgphoto2 builds just fine.

[msmeissn]

i releaed 2.5.9 yesterday, so there are new tarballs since some hours. :)

can you check that?

the libtool install for homebrew should be fine.

[gschwim]

Ah, there the are, and they work. Awesome and thank you!

Figured this should also work out of github. I wonder what's different.

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i releaed 2.5.9 yesterday, so there are new tarballs since some hours. :)

can you check that?

the libtool install for homebrew should be fine.

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[msmeissn]

the git checkout is without all the funny automake,libtool etc bells and wrappers that "make dist" already adds. this makes building from git a bit harder than from a tarball.

[gschwim]

Got it. Above my head on that, I'm just a lowly network engineer. :)

Thanks for the help. Closing...