Libzmq: autogen.sh: error: could not find libtool. libtool is required to run autogen.sh

Created on 28 Apr 2015 · 5Comments · Source: zeromq/libzmq

I get the above error on Ubuntu 15.04 despite having installed libtool. I realised that the libtool command is not available but the libtoolize command is .I was able to build normally by changing the autogen.sh line below

command -v libtool >/dev/null 2>&1

command -v libtoolize >/dev/null 2>&1

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ggitau

Most helpful comment

Thanks for pointing out the issue.

I did this and it worked also
ln -s /usr/bin/libtoolize /usr/bin/libtool

youssefhassan on 7 May 2015

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Thanks for pointing out the issue.

I did this and it worked also
ln -s /usr/bin/libtoolize /usr/bin/libtool

youssefhassan on 7 May 2015

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I got the same error in Ubuntu 14.04 while trying to install JZMQ.
Could you please tell how do I write above commands in 14.04?

sanzhars on 9 May 2015

Somehow I need to install libtool-bin and now I can run ./autogen.sh . But now I can't run make and sudo make install. I get "make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop." error.

sanzhars on 27 May 2015

Thanks. Having the same issue

jonaslejon on 29 Jul 2015

The libtool executable script in Debian and Ubuntu has been moved to a different package, libtool-bin, since it is not actually needed (autotool chain will generate it on the fly). This was fixes in PR #1497 so this issue can be closed.