Re: Bug#155610: gettext fails to build from source (fwd)

[Bruno Haible]

Santiago Vila reports a libtool 1.4.2 problem occurring on Linux/m68k
with the gettext package:

> FYI:
> 
> On a Linux m68k system without the file command installed, a build of gettext
> fails to create the shared libraries.
> 
> This is because gettext contains a libtool.m4 file saying:
> 
> # This must be Linux ELF.
> linux-gnu*)
>   case $host_cpu in
>   alpha* | hppa* | i*86 | powerpc* | sparc* | ia64* )
>     lt_cv_deplibs_check_method=pass_all ;;
>   *)
>     # glibc up to 2.1.1 does not perform some relocations on ARM
>     lt_cv_deplibs_check_method='file_magic ELF [[0-9]][[0-9]]*-bit [[LM]]SB 
> (shared object|dynamic lib )' ;;
>   esac
>   lt_cv_file_magic_test_file=`echo /lib/libc.so* /lib/libc-*.so`
>   ;;
> 
> which is also the source of several problems (see
> http://bugs.debian.org/120515).
> 
> Debian uses glibc-2.2 already, so I will probably patch libtool.m4 so
> that it always uses pass_all under Linux, as it was done in the Debian
> libtool package.
> 
> Thanks.
>