Installing Thrift

Checked out thrift from the trunk on my ubuntu box ( 9.10 ) .

The first step on the installation was running the program

$ ./bootstrap.sh

It failed with some errors , some fairly obvious (missing autoconf ) - some not so obvious.
The first step is to get autoconf installed.

$ sudo apt-get install autoconf

Then ran into this error.

$ ./bootstrap.sh
configure.ac:44: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.ac:26: installing `./install-sh'
configure.ac:26: installing `./missing'
compiler/cpp/Makefile.am: installing `./depcomp'
configure.ac: installing `./ylwrap'
lib/cpp/Makefile.am:24: Libtool library used but `LIBTOOL' is undefined
lib/cpp/Makefile.am:24:   The usual way to define `LIBTOOL' is to add `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'
lib/cpp/Makefile.am:24:   to `configure.ac' and run `aclocal' and `autoconf' again.
lib/cpp/Makefile.am:24:   If `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' is in `configure.ac', make sure
lib/cpp/Makefile.am:24:   its definition is in aclocal's search path.
test/Makefile.am:30: Libtool library used but `LIBTOOL' is undefined
test/Makefile.am:30:   The usual way to define `LIBTOOL' is to add `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL'
test/Makefile.am:30:   to `configure.ac' and run `aclocal' and `autoconf' again.
test/Makefile.am:30:   If `AC_PROG_LIBTOOL' is in `configure.ac', make sure
test/Makefile.am:30:   its definition is in aclocal's search path.

The fix was to install libtool.
$ sudo apt-get install libtool


And then comes the boost libraries -

$ sudo apt-get install libboost1.40-dev libboost1.40-doc

(Your boost library version might be different from mine but you get the idea !!).