I hate to reply to my own mail but ...

> *** Warning: the command libtool uses to detect shared libraries,
> *** /usr/bin/file, produces output that libtool cannot recognize.
> *** The result is that libtool may fail to recognize shared libraries
> *** as such.  This will affect the creation of libtool libraries that
> *** depend on shared libraries, but programs linked with such libtool
> *** libraries will work regardless of this problem.  Nevertheless, you
> *** may want to report the problem to your system manager and/or to
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> And it seems to appear because the /usr/bin/file command run on my
> /lib/libc-2.1.3.so library produces
>
> /lib/libc-2.1.3.so: ELF 32-bit (SYSV) MSB shared object, PowerPC or
> cisco 4500,
> version 1, not stripped
>
> which fails when run through the egrep in line 2096 of ltconfig, which
> on my system evaluates to
>
> egrep "ELF [0-9][0-9]*-bit [LM]SB (shared object|dynamic lib )"
>
> Does anyone know if anything nasty will happen if I ignore this warning?

This was actually due to the version of /usr/bin/file I was using.  The
latest (as far as I know) version, file-3.35, produces:

/lib/libc-2.1.3.so: ELF 32-bit (SYSV) MSB shared object, PowerPC or cisco
4500,
version 1, not stripped

but when run on the very same file, file-3.27 produces:

/lib/libc-2.1.3.so: ELF 32-bit MSB shared object, PowerPC or cisco 4500,
version
 1, not stripped

When ntop is compiled using file-3.35, there are a lot of warnings due to
the extra (SYSV) which is not expected by ltconfig as noted above.  When
file-3.27 is used, ntop compiles cleanly.

Hopefully this will save someone else some of the problems I had.  Would
someone who knows what they are doing like to take a stab at fixing
ltconfig?  I tried, but got errors when I tried to run ntop :(

Tania

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