Re: update_excuses.html

[Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>]

Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org> writes:

> (Commands from a 1.4.2a generated ./libtool):
>
>   # Commands used to build and install an old-style archive.
>   RANLIB="ranlib"
>   old_archive_cmds="$AR cru $oldlib$oldobjs~$RANLIB $oldlib"
>   old_postinstall_cmds="$RANLIB $oldlib~chmod 644 $oldlib"

OK, something is definitely wrong.

If I dpkg-source extract guile-core 1.4-18 on my system and just run
./configure, I get this in ./libtool:

  # Commands used to build and install an old-style archive.
  RANLIB="ranlib"
  old_archive_cmds="\$AR cru \$oldlib\$oldobjs~\$RANLIB \$oldlib"
  old_postinstall_cmds="\$RANLIB \$oldlib~chmod 644 \$oldlib"
  old_postuninstall_cmds=""

But if I do the same on voltaire (ppc), I get the broken:

  # Commands used to build and install an old-style archive.
  RANLIB="ranlib"
  old_archive_cmds="$AR cru $oldlib$oldobjs~$RANLIB $oldlib"
  old_postinstall_cmds="$RANLIB $oldlib~chmod 644 $oldlib"
  old_postuninstall_cmds=""

My machine has libtool 1.4-3 and voltaire has 1.4-2.  I'm wondering if
that could be the difference, though I didn't think the system libtool
affected a build unless you run libtoolize, which I'm not.

Any ideas?

Thanks

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Rob Browning
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