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I am trying to setup watchman for the mac. As stated on the website, I need to install glibtool.

Can anyone provide a link to where I can download glibtool?

I need to be able to download it from its source and the only solution I can find is by using brew.

I do not want to use brew.

Thank you.

Larney
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glibtool is "GNU Libtool". It is typically installed as libtool on most systems, but because macOS has its own libtool that has completely different functionality, it is usually installed as glibtool on macOS.

If you can't directly use homebrew to install it, you can duplicate the steps in its recipe, which you can find here: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/libtool.rb

For the sake of keeping this answer "working" even if homebrew goes away, the homepage for libtool is https://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/ and you can follow the instructions there for information on how to build and install it.

Wez Furlong
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I've covered similar issues to Wez's answer from a MacPorts perspective; I'll go ahead and assume you can't use that either.

The latest stable version at this time is 2.4.6. Typical best practice is to make a directory, e.g., build in the top level of the source. Add the prefix: g, with --program-prefix=g, the top level installation directory --prefix=PREFIX, or specify more fine-grained installation directories options for bin, include, lib, and share directories.

> mkdir build
> cd build
> ../configure --prefix=/my/install/path --program-prefix=g
> make; make install

You now have glibtool and glibtoolize in $PREFIX/bin.

Brett Hale
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