Re: glibtool support in autogen (was Re: seeking for help on MNG creation)

On Apr 1, 2004, at 4:59 PM, Ralph Giles wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 11:25:09AM +0200, Gerard Juyn wrote:
>
>>> It would be good if the next version could also be sensitive to the 
>>> fact
>>> that autogen.sh uses "libtool" by default, which is named "glibtool" 
>>> on
>>> Mac OS X/Darwin. It's an easy fix for a porting system, but maybe 
>>> this
>>> could be included as well.
>
> A patch is attached. It looks for glibtoolize if libtoolize isn't in 
> the
> path. The name conflict is with 'libtool' so the libtool package is
> shipped by Apple with a name prefix of 'g'. Thus, searching in this
> order is safe.
>
> We've been doing something very similar for a while in libogg, so it's
> had some portability testing. Tested on linux and MacOS 10.3. Of 
> course,
> we still don't build out of the box because Apple doesn't ship an
> accessible libjpeg, but should do once one is installed.
>

I'll test the patch and let you know my what breaks and what doesn't 
;).  There has been dicsussion at apple, at least that was the rumor,  
about the best way to deal with stuff like this.  Apple ships with two 
implementations of libtool, one of which is the gnu version - glibtool 
stuff.

--Larry


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And like the cat I have nine times to die."

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