[Gnucash-changes] Mac OSX fix - remove non-portable settings

Thomas Bushnell BSG tb at becket.net
Thu Oct 13 14:16:31 EDT 2005


Neil Williams <linux at codehelp.co.uk> writes:

> The version of libtool on OSX has no --version command, it has no --help
> or -? or --usage or any other simple command that does not start the
> linker. Whatever you pass it, either you pass a valid link command or
> you get the error message - which naturally goes to STDERR which autogen
> picks up as a "no such file or directory" error and thinks that libtool
> is not installed.
>
> PITA!
>
> How do we get around that?

Um, decide that a fundamentally broken libtool constitutes a libtool
which is not installed, and then put one in the tarball for use when
there is none installed? :)

Thomas


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