I am trying to compile my first program (called steghide) with SuSE 9.0 Pro from the tarball source code. I first installed the C++ compiler (nothing else installed) using YaST2 because I initially got an error saying the compiler was missing which YaST2 verified. I then checked to be sure that I had all the required libraries and dependicies installed. The required library complilation and installation seemed to go fine. However, when I tired to compile the main program I ran into problems. No errors appeared when I did ./configure. When I did "make" the compilation seemed to go fine until the very end when I got the following error message:
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/bin/sh libtool --mode=link g++ -O2 -Wall -o steghide Arg.o Arguments.o AssertionFailed.o AuFile.o AuSampleValues.o DFSAPHeuristic.o BFSAPHeuristic.o BinaryIO.o BitString.o BmpFile.o BmpPaletteSampleValue.o BmpRGBSampleValue.o BmpSampleValue.o WKSConstructionHeuristic.o DMDConstructionHeuristic.o CvrStgFile.o Edge.o EdgeIterator.o EmbData.o Embedder.o EncryptionAlgorithm.o EncryptionMode.o Extractor.o Graph.o JpegFile.o JpegSampleValue.o MCryptPP.o MHashKeyGen.o MHashPP.o Matching.o MatchingAlgorithm.o ProgressOutput.o PseudoRandomSource.o RGBTriple.o RandomSource.o SampleValue.o SampleValueAdjacencyList.o Selector.o Session.o SteghideError.o Terminal.o Utils.o Vertex.o WavChunk.o WavChunkHeader.o WavChunkUnused.o WavFile.o WavFormatChunk.o WavPCMSampleValue.o error.o main.o msg.o SMDConstructionHeuristic.o -ljpeg -lmcrypt -lmhash -lz
libtool: line 1975: libtool: No such file or directory
libtool: link: unable to infer tagged configuration
libtool: link: specify a tag with `--tag'
make[2]: *** [steghide] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jsnyder/Downloads/Steganography/steghide/steghide-0.5.1/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jsnyder/Downloads/Steganography/steghide/steghide-0.5.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2
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YaST2 says that libtool is installed on my system so what is wrong here? Can you give me any ideas as to how to clear up the problem? Is there some required program or library I might not have installed? The INSTALL file with the program did offer this suggestion, which I don't understand, if it help:

Some systems require unusual options for compilation or linking that
the `configure' script does not know about. You can give `configure'
initial values for variables by setting them in the environment. Using
a Bourne-compatible shell, you can do that on the command line like
this:
CC=c89 CFLAGS=-O2 LIBS=-lposix ./configure

Or on systems that have the `env' program, you can do it like this:
env CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-s ./configure

When I type libtool from the terminal as either root or a regular user I get this:

*** Warning: inferring the mode of operation is deprecated.
*** Future versions of Libtool will require -mode=MODE be specified.
libtool: warning: cannot infer operation mode without MODE-ARGS
libtool: you must specify a MODE
Try `libtool --help' for more information

Thanks. I am a linux newbie and would really like the get this working.

libtool: line 1975: libtool: No such file or directory

The libtool shell script or program is not in the PATH, it looks like.

I would edit the libtool script and see where its first occurring on line 1975,
and fix the fact.

Are you saying I need to add /bin/sh to the PATH? If so, how do I do that as I am a linux newbie? Please explain in more detail if you can. Thanks.

same thing is happening to me.

TRYING:
-to compile the latest steghide .0.5.1.

USING:
-fedora core 1 with all rhn updates as of 04/20/2004.
-default distro libtool version ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.5 (1.1220.2.1 2003/04/14 22:48:00)
-libmcrypt-2.5.7
-mhash 0.9.1 (also tried 0.8.18)

ERROR:
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/mgoodman/downloads/done/security/stego/steghide-0.5.1/src'
/bin/sh libtool --mode=link g++ -O2 -Wall -o steghide Arg.o Arguments.o AssertionFailed.o AuFile.o AuSampleValues.o DFSAPHeuristic.o BFSAPHeuristic.o BinaryIO.o BitString.o BmpFile.o BmpPaletteSampleValue.o BmpRGBSampleValue.o BmpSampleValue.o WKSConstructionHeuristic.o DMDConstructionHeuristic.o CvrStgFile.o Edge.o EdgeIterator.o EmbData.o Embedder.o EncryptionAlgorithm.o EncryptionMode.o Extractor.o Graph.o JpegFile.o JpegSampleValue.o MCryptPP.o MHashKeyGen.o MHashPP.o Matching.o MatchingAlgorithm.o ProgressOutput.o PseudoRandomSource.o RGBTriple.o RandomSource.o SampleValue.o SampleValueAdjacencyList.o Selector.o Session.o SteghideError.o Terminal.o Utils.o Vertex.o WavChunk.o WavChunkHeader.o WavChunkUnused.o WavFile.o WavFormatChunk.o WavPCMSampleValue.o error.o main.o msg.o SMDConstructionHeuristic.o -ljpeg -lmcrypt -lmhash -lz
libtool: line 1978: libtool: No such file or directory
libtool: line 1978: libtool: No such file or directory
libtool: line 1978: libtool: No such file or directory
libtool: link: unable to infer tagged configuration
libtool: link: specify a tag with `--tag'
make[2]: *** [steghide] Error 1


im not quite so much a newbie. it doesnt look like a path problem, as libtool is in /usr/bin and that is obviously in my path...that and the error is coming from libtool...

however, the code within libtool in question is:
for z in $available_tags; do
if grep "^# ### BEGIN LIBTOOL TAG CONFIG: $z$" < "$0" > /dev/null; then
# Evaluate the configuration.
eval "`${SED} -n -e '/^# ### BEGIN LIBTOOL TAG CONFIG: '$z'$/,/^# ### END LIBTOOL TAG CONFIG: '$z'$/p' < $0`"
case $base_compile in
"$CC "* | " $CC "* | "`$echo $CC` "* | " `$echo $CC` "*)
# The compiler in $compile_command matches
# the one in the tagged configuration.
# Assume this is the tagged configuration we want.
tagname=$z
break
;;
esac
fi
done

The second line ("if grep"...) is where it's failing. I added some echoing before and after that grep line to make sure, and sure enough only the echos before the grep showed up. The variables in that line, $z and $0 were as follows:
1st iteration: start grep | z = CXX | 0 = libtool
2nd iteration: start grep | z = F77 | 0 = libtool
3rd iteration: start grep | z = GCJ | 0 = libtool

I don't know wtf CXX, F77 and GCJ are at all. Any idea why this would barf? I don't have another c compiler available at the moment (just gcc), and this built fine on my RH 9 machine with distro gcc and a slightly older version of mhash...

Also, I did notice some weird pointer errors when configuring, making and installing mhash, but it did install fine, and I get no errors on make, though it is repeatable. It figures that it seems to do with libtool again. Sample lines:

Making all in lib
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/mgoodman/downloads/done/security/mhash/mhash-0.9.1/lib'
if /bin/sh ../libtool --silent --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -g -O2 -MT mhash.lo -MD -MP -MF ".deps/mhash.Tpo" \
-c -o mhash.lo `test -f 'mhash.c' || echo './'`mhash.c; \
then mv -f ".deps/mhash.Tpo" ".deps/mhash.Plo"; \
else rm -f ".deps/mhash.Tpo"; exit 1; \
fi
mhash.c:105: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
... these happen about 50 more times, down to the next line.
mhash.c:184: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type

Same thing happened with 0.8.18 of mhash. WTF is wrong wtih libtool!? :P

Thanks in advance.

-Mike

I have the exact same problem, however I am trying to compile freeradius on a gentoo server running on a sparc64 architecture.

So I think the problem really has everything to do with libtool but I haven't the slightest clue as to what to do to fix it.
Anyone?

Try to go in src/ directory.

and then, type the command libtool manually and add, before "--mode=link" , "--tag=" and whatever you want in there... it worked for me.

Good luck