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12:26AM <codehero> I seem to be having problems with libtool when I try to cross compile
12:26AM <codehero> what is the proper way to make libtool work with cross compiling?
12:35AM <duffolonious> it can't resolve the dependencies, is that the problem?
12:35AM <landley> codehero: Don't use libtool.
12:35AM <landley> It does nothing on Linux.
12:35AM <duffolonious> good solution...
12:35AM <landley> It exists to humor systems like solaris and HP-UX.
12:35AM <landley> On Linux, it should be a NO-OP wrapper.
12:36AM <landley> The fact that the FSF can't competently make a package do nothing says rather a lot about them, if you ask me.
12:37AM <duffolonious> heh, that may be - but it is a dep in many ebuilds.
12:37AM <landley> duffolonious: then those ebuilds are broken.
12:37AM <landley> There is _never_ a good reason to use libtool on Linux.  Not that I'm aware of, anyway.
12:38AM <duffolonious> autotools.eclass (lot of broken ebuilds then)
12:38AM <landley> It's part of the FSF's standard package building set.
12:38AM <duffolonious> yep yep
12:38AM <landley> But that's because when RMS was writing the hurd, he was doing it on donated Unix workstations.
12:39AM <landley> HP, I think.
12:39AM <landley> HU-UX, I mean.
12:39AM <landley> HP-UX.
12:39AM <landley> HP-UX, Solaris, Aix, Ultrix, and TRU-64 all had variants of insanity when it came to library linking.
12:39AM <landley> Keep in mind this predated the world at large switching to elf in the early 90's.
12:40AM <duffolonious> I see
12:42AM <codehero> ok, with all this is mind is ok just to fake out libtool and blanket tag to CC?
12:44AM <duffolonious> bbl
12:44AM <landley> codehero: as long as it's not sucking in libtool from your host, not having it should work fine.
12:44AM <landley> Nothing uses libtool without using ./configure that detects the absence of libtool.
12:45AM <landley> Dinner time.
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