I don't know if this is related, but make sure you have bash and not dash
as the default shell.

I remember having problems building sawfish/librep due to that.

1 dmg@y $ ls -l /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jan 20 18:48 /bin/sh -> bash*


--dmg

On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 6:22 AM, Rafal Kolanski <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to build the latest sawfish from sources, and am getting into
> libtool difficulty.
>
> The reason I'm trying to build the latest is because I'm investigating
> another issue: when using SDL2 to create a 640x480 window, sawfish
> 1.9.90 does not report window border sizes correctly and a window with a
> canvas size of 638x478 results, while SDL2 thinks it's 640x480 and parts
> of the canvas are not rendered. Using xfwm4 does not have any problems
> of this kind.
>
> using:
> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b -us -uc
> or alternatively the "make-sure-it's-bash" version:
> SHELL=/bin/bash /bin/bash -c "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b -us -uc"
>
> results in:
> make[1]: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/rep/libtool: Command not found
>
> I just compiled and installed librep and rep from sources. I only have
> this rep-related libtool installed:
> /usr/lib/rep/libtool
>
> Forcing a symlink to use that libtool just results in:
> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.9/../../../../lib/librep.a: error adding
> symbols: Bad value
>
> It's a bit unclear how to proceed here. I'm not exactly an autotools
> expert.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Rafal Kolanski
>
> --
> Sawfish ML
>
>


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--dmg

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Daniel M. German
http://turingmachine.org

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