On my Mandrake-based systems (seen on 7.2 and Cooker), libtool 1.4 and autoconf 2.52 (reproducable with the stock gnu.org versions) interact to cause shared libraries not to work. I haven't been able to find out exactly what the cause is here. (I'll attempt to dig in more as time allows...)
With libtool 1.4, this results in a non-buildable tree (as it tries to use -soname which is not supported by gcc). Libtool 1.4.2 is a bit better, but refuses to build shared libraries at *all* (but the tree is buildable - we'll just *silently* ignore any requests for shared libraries - which is bad). The kicker here is that this problem doesn't occur with autoconf 2.13/libtool 1.4 or autconf 2.52/libtool 1.3.3 (libtool complains about an unexpected = in this combination, but builds okay). I just tested with autoconf 2.50/libtool 1.4.2 and this combination looks broken too. Can anyone else reproduce this? Should we force buildconf to forbid this combination (autoconf 2.50+ and libtool 1.4+)? -- justin
