Peter Petrakis wrote:
>
> > Interesting...I had not time to look into the libtool issue. What you
> > have found is interesting. I'm a bit confused about the steps you have
> > described. Are you saying to do 1) alias gcc=ccc, 2) run ./configure,
> > then 3) run ./ltconfig or are you saying do 3) before 2). If I do 3
> > before 2, then configure wipes out the libtool that ltconfig built.
>
> The procedure is 1) 3) 2) :-).
ok.
> > It's doing it when I try this procedure on SDL. Also if I do 3 after
> > 2, then the libtool file does not match what came out of configure.
> > (I'm not sure if the mismatch is really a problem or not.)
>
> It shouldnt do that. configure should load the libtool previously
> created unless it's creating it's own libtool as "part" of the script.
> It works here with MySQL and php consistantly.
I think most of the packages I build recreate libtool. It's getting
tiresome editing libtool after configure has run... :\
> > Something strange is going on in configure. There's something in
> > configure that says if I'm not gcc, then don't create a shared lib.
> > It gets worse if you specify CFLAGS in the environment, then it
> > doesn't work at all (gcc pukes on my -arch switch). It seems to
> > be calling /usr/bin/gcc directly.
>
> You see. The whole idea of libtool is to use "it" to call your compiler
> so your makefile remains independant of such things and thus more
> flexiable.
Personally, I've never been real thrilled with libtool.
> The configure file that comes with SDL is doing something wrong. Is this
> just the SDL tarball or the current SDL rpm from RH? I want to try and
> reproduce what you're seeing.
It's the SDL tarball from the SDL web site.
Alan
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