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From: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: AARRRRGGH! Die Libtool, die!
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 14:46:01 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87smupi86u.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200302151436.h1FEacTL013547@smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl> (Han-Wen Nienhuys's message of "Sat, 15 Feb 2003 15:36:38 +0100 (CET)")

Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@cs.uu.nl> writes:

> WTF is it recompiling stuff during installation? 

I'm not particularly fond of that "feature" either.  I think it has to
do with trying to have libs that will work from the install tree vs
libs that will work from the build tree.  (i.e. perhaps different
-rpaths, etc., and it may be aggravated by cross-platform issues).

If you haven't done it already, I'd try a "make distclean" and
(re)running ./autogen.sh and see if that helps.  If not, we'll try
something else.

> I can't believe this. Every single time that I've tried to do a major
> upgrade of CVS guile, there have been unfathomable issues with libtool
> and libltdl. Why is this always so complicated?

Good question -- It's certainly not entertaining when it happens.

To be somewhat fair though, I'd have to allow that the problem they're
trying to solve is a fairly nasty one, and certainly isn't made any
easier by being written in #!/bin/sh -- not a job I'd favor.

(Personally, I'd rather have all those tools (auto* included) written
 in something like perl -- it's nearly as ubiquitous and *far* more
 managable.  Of course perl couldn't use them then, but AFAIK, it
 doesn't anyway.)

Hope this helps.

-- 
Rob Browning
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-15 20:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-15 14:36 AARRRRGGH! Die Libtool, die! Han-Wen Nienhuys
2003-02-15 20:46 ` Rob Browning [this message]
2003-02-15 23:54   ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2003-02-16  0:56     ` Tom Lord
2003-02-18 11:24       ` tomas
2003-02-18 17:14       ` Rob Browning
2003-02-18 18:50         ` rm
2003-02-19 13:04           ` tomas
2003-02-21 17:28           ` Rob Browning
2003-02-16  1:09     ` Rob Browning
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-02-15 14:26 Han-Wen Nienhuys
2003-02-18 11:04 ` tomas

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