svn trunk doesn't build again

Peter O'Gorman peter at pogma.com
Sat Jan 21 19:27:45 EST 2006


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Ganesan Rajagopal wrote:
|>>>>>Peter O'Gorman <peter at pogma.com> writes:
|
|
|>This issue is specific to debian libtool. If Ganesan installs a more recent
|>version of gnu libtool from ftp.gnu.org he'll not have a problem. Since, for
|>an actual release, the libtool used is the one on the release manager's
|>system, I think you should ask developers to use a gnu version.
|
|
| Peter,
|
| I did know that Debian specifically patched libtool for this behavior and
| posted the rationale for it. I assumed that upstream will also apply this
| patch sooner or later. Does this mean upstream does not agree that this
| behavior is beneficial. This is probably not the right list for this
| question, but since the context is here, a quick answer will be of
| help. Thanks.

The patch was posted to the libtool lists on multiple occasions... The
theory is good, but the implementation has issues, iirc.

Peter
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