libtool: Version mismatch error when building openocd

[T-K-233]

System info

> uname -a
Linux PaperWeight 6.2.0-37-generic #38~22.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Nov  2 18:01:13 UTC 2 x86_64 GNU/Linux

> lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
Release:        22.04
Codename:       jammy

Error log

~/Documents/RISCV/riscv-openocd$ make
mkdir -p src
cat src/helper/startup.tcl src/jtag/startup.tcl src/target/startup.tcl src/server/startup.tcl src/flash/startup.tcl | ./src/helper/bin2char.sh > src/startup_tcl.inc || { rm -f src/startup_tcl.inc; false; }
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/tk/Documents/RISCV/riscv-openocd'
Making all in jimtcl
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/tk/Documents/RISCV/riscv-openocd/jimtcl'
        MKLDEXT _load-static-exts.c
        CC      _load-static-exts.o
        CC      jim-subcmd.o
        CC      jim-interactive.o
        CC      jim-format.o
        CC      jim.o
        CC      utf8.o
        CC      jimregexp.o
        CC      jimiocompat.o
        CC      jim-aio.o
        CC      jim-array.o
        CC      jim-clock.o
        CC      jim-eventloop.o
        CC      jim-exec.o
        CC      jim-file.o
        CC      jim-history.o
        CC      jim-interp.o
        CC      jim-json.o
        CC      jim-load.o
        CC      jim-namespace.o
        CC      jim-pack.o
        CC      jim-package.o
        CC      jim-posix.o
        CC      jim-readdir.o
        CC      jim-regexp.o
        CC      jim-signal.o
        CC      jim-syslog.o
        TCLEXT  _glob.c
        CC      glob.o
        TCLEXT  _jsonencode.c
        CC      jsonencode.o
        TCLEXT  _nshelper.c
        CC      nshelper.o
        TCLEXT  _oo.c
        CC      oo.o
        TCLEXT  _stdlib.c
        CC      stdlib.o
        TCLEXT  _tclcompat.c
        CC      tclcompat.o
        TCLEXT  _tree.c
        CC      tree.o
        AR      libjim.a
        CC      jimsh.o
        TCLEXT  _initjimsh.c
        CC      initjimsh.o
        LINK    jimsh
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/tk/Documents/RISCV/riscv-openocd/jimtcl'
make[2]: Entering directory '/home/tk/Documents/RISCV/riscv-openocd'
restore=: && backupdir=".am$$" && \
am__cwd=`pwd` && CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && \
rm -rf $backupdir && mkdir $backupdir && \
if (echo makeinfo missing; true --version) >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
  for f in doc/openocd.info doc/openocd.info-[0-9] doc/openocd.info-[0-9][0-9] doc/openocd.i[0-9] doc/openocd.i[0-9][0-9]; do \
    if test -f $f; then mv $f $backupdir; restore=mv; else :; fi; \
  done; \
else :; fi && \
cd "$am__cwd"; \
if echo makeinfo missing; true   -I doc -I ./doc \
 -o doc/openocd.info ./doc/openocd.texi; \
then \
  rc=0; \
  CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd .; \
else \
  rc=$?; \
  CDPATH="${ZSH_VERSION+.}:" && cd . && \
  $restore $backupdir/* `echo "./doc/openocd.info" | sed 's|[^/]*$||'`; \
fi; \
rm -rf $backupdir; exit $rc
makeinfo missing
depbase=`echo src/main.o | sed 's|[^/]*$|.deps/&|;s|\.o$||'`;\
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.   -I./src -I./src -DPKGDATADIR=\"/usr/local/share/openocd\" -DBINDIR=\"/usr/local/bin\" -DFD_SETSIZE=128 -I./jimtcl -I./jimtcl  -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wformat-security -Wshadow -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -Wredundant-decls -Wpointer-arith -Wundef -Werror -DFD_SETSIZE=128 -g -O2 -MT src/main.o -MD -MP -MF $depbase.Tpo -c -o src/main.o src/main.c &&\
mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po
/bin/bash ./libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.   -DRELSTR=\"`./guess-rev.sh .`\" -DGITVERSION=\"`cd . && git describe`\" -DPKGBLDDATE=\"`date +%F-%R`\"  -I./src -I./src -DPKGDATADIR=\"/usr/local/share/openocd\" -DBINDIR=\"/usr/local/bin\" -DFD_SETSIZE=128 -I./jimtcl -I./jimtcl   -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wformat-security -Wshadow -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -Wredundant-decls -Wpointer-arith -Wundef -Werror -DFD_SETSIZE=128 -g -O2 -MT src/libopenocd_la-hello.lo -MD -MP -MF src/.deps/libopenocd_la-hello.Tpo -c -o src/libopenocd_la-hello.lo `test -f 'src/hello.c' || echo './'`src/hello.c
libtool: Version mismatch error.  This is libtool 2.4.7, but the
libtool: definition of this LT_INIT comes from libtool 2.4.6.
libtool: You should recreate aclocal.m4 with macros from libtool 2.4.7
libtool: and run autoconf again.
make[2]: *** [Makefile:4030: src/libopenocd_la-hello.lo] Error 63
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/tk/Documents/RISCV/riscv-openocd'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:4968: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/tk/Documents/RISCV/riscv-openocd'
make: *** [Makefile:2124: all] Error 2

[JanMatCodasip]

This looks to me like you have configured (./bootstrap && ./configure) your build with libtool 2.4.6 but trying to build (make) with different libtool version.

Please, try a full clean build:

make clean
make distclean
./bootstrap
./configure [.. your args ..]
make -j`nproc`

[T-K-233]

Resolved:

If you are using conda, then this could be due to libtool and autoconf from different sources. Can check this by executing

which libtool

which autoconf

In my case, although I have exited the conda environment, both libtool and autoconf was still pointed to the binary in a conda environment:

> ~/Documents/RISCV/riscv-openocd$ which libtool
/home/tk/Desktop/chipyard-fpga/.conda-env/bin/libtool
> which autoconf
/home/tk/Desktop/chipyard-fpga/.conda-env/bin/autoconf

which is a older version than what openocd build needs.

I had to remove the conda environment by using the command

conda remove -p /home/tk/Desktop/chipyard-fpga/.conda-env/

after removing the conda environment, it still cannot link to the default system binaries. After rebooting the system, it finally worked.

> ~/Documents/RISCV/riscv-openocd$ which libtool
/usr/bin/libtool
> which autoconf
/usr/bin/autoconf

[T-K-233]

This looks to me like you have configured (./bootstrap && ./configure) your build with libtool 2.4.6 but trying to build (make) with different libtool version.

Please, try a full clean build:

make clean
make distclean
./bootstrap
./configure [.. your args ..]
make -j`nproc`

Thanks for the reply! I figured out that it was indeed the environment issue, and have found the solution. Somehow I forgot to post the update above last night...