[rrd-developers] Distro patch to libtool on Debian Wheezy/Ubuntu Oneiric breaks compile of rrdtool (Was: Re: Compile failure due to libwrap on Ubuntu 11.10)

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi Alex,

Today Alex Bennee wrote:

> On 20 December 2011 15:46, Tobias Oetiker <tobi at oetiker.ch> wrote:
> > Hi Alex,
> >
> > Yesterday Alex Bennee wrote:
> >
> >> On 19 December 2011 17:00, Tobias Oetiker <tobi at oetiker.ch> wrote:
> >> > Alex,
> >> >
> >> > your system seems to be using a different version of  libtool ...
> >> > so did you run MakeMakefile ?
> >>
> >> No, isn't that part of the configure/autogen stuff?
> >
> > MakeMakefile calls the auto* tools in a way so that all the right
> > bits get put into place ...
> >
> > libtool gets created by libtoolize as far as I know ...
>
> OK after much bisecting I've narrowed it down to a patch in libtool
> 2.4 added by Debian in
> libtool 2.4-1 The result moves the processing of dependancy_libs
> in libtool which breaks the passing of the flags in the subtle and
> maddening way discussed.

:-) cool ... maybe I am not using the 'standard' way of adding
libraries ? will be glad to adapt ...


> I've attached the libtool patch for reference. Once I've figured out
> what it's trying to achieve
> I'll raise a bug with Debian/Ubuntu to fix their libtool and then
> we'll finally be able to build a newer
> rrdtool on Debian.

note on the rrdtool webpage there is a daily snapshot of rrdtool
including all the configure stuff ...

cheers
tobi
>
>

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