Re: --program-prefix leads to broken libtoolize

[Geoff Keating]

On Feb 3, 2004, at 12:04 PM, Scott James Remnant wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 22:56, Geoff Keating wrote:
>
> (snipped to just the relevant lines)
>
> > I built libtool-1.5.2 on powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0 by:
> > $ ./configure --prefix=$HOME --program-prefix=g
> > $ glibtoolize -c --force
> > cp: /Network/Servers/cauchy/homes/thorin/gkeating/share/libtool/ 
> > config.guess: No such file or directory
> >
> > $ ls -1 /Network/Servers/cauchy/homes/thorin/gkeating/share/libtool/
> > gconfig.guess
> > gconfig.sub
> Automake is applying the various program changes to _SCRIPTS...
>
> I don't even know *HOW* we can support program-prefix, program-suffix
> (and worst of all) program-transform-name ... I can't think of any way
> of getting the resulting transform into libtoolize; at least not one
> that doesn't make me violently sick.

I'd suggest doing the reverse, which is to not transform these names.  
There's no reason to rename anything in $prefix/share/libtool.

> The Autoconf manual does say "if the package supports it", maybe we
> should just not support it and mercilessly flay anyone who tries?

On Darwin, there's already a program in /usr/bin called 'libtool', and 
it's not any relation to the GNU one, which makes it a bit inconvenient 
if you can't rename the installed libtool.

--
Geoff Keating <address@hidden>