RE: File and Libtool...

[Bureau, Pierre]

-----Original Message-----
From: Alexandre Oliva [mailto:address@hidden]
Sent: 13 January 2001 07:12

>> *** Warning: the command libtool uses to detect shared libraries,
>> *** /usr/bin/file, produces output that libtool cannot recognize.
>>
>> The file version on my system is 3.28 writtren by Ian F. Darwin.
>
> So, what is the output /usr/bin/file produces?

here is an extract of file outputs when running: file /opt/gnome/lib/*

glib:                 directory
gnome-libs:           directory
gnomeConf.sh:         English text
gnomehack:            directory
[...]
libgtk.a:             current ar archive
libgtk.la:            English text
libgtkxmhtml.a:       current ar archive
libgtkxmhtml.la:      English text
libimlib-bmp.a:       current ar archive
libimlib-bmp.la:      English text
libimlib-bmp.so:      ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1, not stripped
libimlib-gif.a:       current ar archive
libimlib-gif.la:      English text
libimlib-gif.so:      ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1, not stripped
[...]
libimlib-xpm.a:       current ar archive
libimlib-xpm.la:      English text
libimlib-xpm.so:      ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1, not stripped
libname-server.a:     current ar archive
liborbit-c-backend.a: current ar archive
libzvt.a:             current ar archive
libzvt.la:            English text
mc:                   symbolic link to /usr/lib/mc

>>  As a result, none of the Gnome shared library are built.... And that's
>> fucking annoying...
>
>Understood.  This is kind-of fixed in the CVS version of libtool.  (It
>no longer uses file on GNU/Linux/x86)