Re: don't let libtool infer the tag

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Mike Frysinger wrote on Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 01:41:32AM CEST:
> On Sunday 13 April 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > So don't do this, please.  Supply --tag=CC if your compiler name doesn't
> > match.
> 
> i doubt people will care at this point, but ive done a bit of work in Gentoo 
> to make the tag inferring "better".  ive done this as there are still a few 
> packages out there that insist on using libtool found in $PATH.  we've been 
> killing them off over time, but we still havent gotten them all, so this 
> painful patch lives on.
> http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-devel/libtool/files/1.5.6/libtool-1.5-filter-host-tags.patch

Well, this patch is really ugly.  Not only is it a further cause of
overhead, it also can induce using libtool with a compiler or host
system for which it hasn't been configured.  Which can cause all
kinds of interesting failures.  So really please supply --tag to fix
these.

Cheers,
Ralf