Is there a way around macports to install libtool?

Question

According to this question, I need to install macports to get libtool and various other dependencies.

Is it possible to do this without macports? Can I download these files individually somewhere?

Answer 1

Installing macports for autotools is not required, since you can build them from source. It's probably not as convenient, but it works. The autoconf, automake, and libtool are available from ftp.gnu.org.