From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
To: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Cc: "Richard Dawe" <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Subject: Re: Package of libtool?
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 22:33:29 +0200
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> Has anyone got a package of libtool for DJGPP? libtool 1.3.4 seems to
> build OK with DJGPP, but I haven't tested it, so it may fall foul of
> MS-DOS/Windows. If no-one is planning to a package of it, I may try to
> port it to DJGPP properly sometime.
>
> I need libtool to build XDelta 1.1.2 from its CVS. It may require libtool
> 1.4. It may also require autoconf 2.50, automake 1.4-p4. (The author
> hasn't replied to my questions about that yet.)

From my attempts at building cvs gettext (which now uses 1.4) there should
be no problem, save one.  ltconfig uses -fPIC as compiler option to
produce PIC code.  gcc happily accepts this option and generates assembler
code our as can't grok (bfd assertions get thrown).
An obvious fix is to simply edit ltconfig to not use this option; I've
also mailed a report to Mark & Andris, but I'm not sure if this is something
that should be handled in binutils (ie add support to bfd) or gcc (ie
disallow -fPIC for a djgpp host).

Otherwise, libtool 1.4 seems to work very well (at least with autoconf 2.50
and a cvs automake).

Since I'm already planning on maintaining autoconf (2.51 planned for this
week) and automake (1.5 Real Soon Now(tm)) for DJGPP, I'll probably handle
libtool as well (after all, they're pretty closely connected) - I'll (try
to) prepare a package for 1.4 this weekend.