There are two issues. #1) When I attempt to do ./buildconf I get: Copying libtool helper files ... $_prefix/share/aclocal/libtool.m4 not found I found this here: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48776 But I was unable to find a solution. Temporarily I edited /usr/bin/glibtoolize and changed: aclocaldir=$_prefix/share/aclocal to: aclocaldir=/usr/share/aclocal And that fixed this issue. I can confirm this on 2.2.14 through 2.2.16 (Didn't test 2.2.17 with this issue) #2) After working around #1 I get this: ./buildconf failed for apr-util (with a few possible relevant lines above this one) I was unable to find a work around. This ONLY applies to 2.2.15 through 2.2.17. It works fine with 2.2.14, which means this problem was introduced in 2.2.15. As far as I can tell each version builds fine as long as you dont need to run ./buildconf. But buildconf is needed, as far as I know, when you want to include optional extensions like mod_fcgid (these issues happen regardless if I have that included or not). Luke
Can you try running after setting an environment variable named LIBTOOL_M4 to the full file name (including absolute directory path) of your libtool.m4 file? If there are still failures, e.g. your #2 failure, please provide full buildconf output.
For #1 here is the complete output: found apr source: srclib/apr found apr-util source: srclib/apr-util rebuilding srclib/apr/configure buildconf: checking installation... buildconf: python version 2.6.1 (ok) buildconf: autoconf version 2.61 (ok) buildconf: libtool version 2.2.4 (ok) Copying libtool helper files ... $_prefix/share/aclocal/libtool.m4 not found ./buildconf failed for apr I tried setting LIBTOOL_M4 to /usr/share/aclocal and /usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4 and nothing changed (output is still the same as above). This is the code in /usr/bin/glibtoolize which is bundled with OS X 10.6.4: prefix=/usr datadir=$_prefix/share pkgdatadir=$_prefix/share/libtool pkgltdldir=$_prefix/share/libtool aclocaldir=$_prefix/share/aclocal Not sure how ./buildconf gets the value of libtool.m4, but if it's reading it directly "$_prefix" is not being parsed. For #2 (still manually editing glibtoolize to aclocaldir=/usr/share/aclocal): The output is: found apr source: srclib/apr found apr-util source: srclib/apr-util rebuilding srclib/apr/configure buildconf: checking installation... buildconf: python version 2.6.1 (ok) buildconf: autoconf version 2.61 (ok) buildconf: libtool version 2.2.4 (ok) Copying libtool helper files ... buildconf: Using libtool.m4 at /usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4. Creating include/arch/unix/apr_private.h.in ... Creating configure ... Generating 'make' outputs ... rebuilding rpm spec file rebuilding srclib/apr-util/configure Looking for apr source in /Users/lukescott/Downloads/httpd-2.2.17/srclib/apr cp: /Users/lukescott/Downloads/httpd-2.2.17/srclib/apr/build/config.guess: No such file or directory cp: /Users/lukescott/Downloads/httpd-2.2.17/srclib/apr/build/config.sub: No such file or directory ./buildconf failed for apr-util Again this isn't an issue in version 2.2.14. The above was just tested in build 2.2.17
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