[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #61905] Build fails when using slibtool instead of GNU libtool

[Michael Orlitzky]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #61905 (project octave):

There's no immediate problem, but we've accrued fifteen patches for GNU
libtool:

  https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/sys-devel/libtool/files

The "libtool" script also hard-codes some important variables like CC and
CFLAGS that can cause problems if the user e.g. tries to use clang after
building libtool libtool with gcc. In short, it's just getting annoying.

So we've tried to build the entire distro with slibtool instead:

  https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=slibtool

This has found lots of build system bugs, and a few slibtool bugs. But most
packages build out-of-the-box.

Being able to build octave with slibtool would be nice for users that want to
use it (it's faster than GNU libtool), is good for portability (vanilla GNU
libtool is seven years out of date w.r.t. new arches), and provides a nice
check for correctness in the build system akin to testing with multiple
compilers.

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