On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Pier Fumagalli wrote: > On 7/10/02 21:45, "William A. Rowe, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > At 03:27 PM 10/7/2002, Sander Temme wrote: > >> Your HEAD probably uses the glibtool(ize) installation on your local box, > >> which on 10.2 by default is 1.4.2. The tarball was built using the FreeBSD > >> libtool, which is 1.3.4. This version did not know about Darwin yet and will > >> not create any sort of shared library on this platform. The solution is > >> building the tarball with a more recent version of libtool. > >> > >> Maybe Apache should fail more conclusively if the user wants .so modules and > >> the build system can't do them, but that's a different question from getting > >> the functionality to work. > >> > >> I think the ASF roll environment should bump its libtool. I doubt Darwin is > >> the only platform that would benefit from that. > > > > This is my doing. > > > > Suggestion; could you offer a patch to build/httpd_roll_release that warns > > the RM that the version of buildconf is too stale? > > Checking against 1.4.2 would be a good-thing(TM) indeed, but doesn't > guarantee that on certain platforms (such as darwin, where the mainstream > libtool port doesn't work) this will not break things again... > > We've been playing the libtool game since I started building 2.0. At one > point or another, it broke things (I remember AIX as well), and as far as I > know, noone has ever been able to get a patch incorporated into the main > tree (I mean, removing a couple of "" is not a big deal, right?)... > > We can't keep libtool on our CVS as it's GPLed, let's just keep it off > somewhere, apply the patches _we_ need, and keep our machines updated with > _our_ version which works _for_us_... Right?
I've got a better idea. Let's just get jlibtool doing enough so that we can use it everywhere. :-) Ryan _______________________________________________________________________________ Ryan Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] 550 Jean St Oakland CA 94610 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------