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Re: Building PSPP on a Mac
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Ben Pfaff |
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Re: Building PSPP on a Mac |
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Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:46:17 -0700 |
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Richard Brittain <address@hidden> writes:
> On the libtool issue, I was wondering just what that gets used for. I
> noticed that pspp creates its own (shell script) libtool, when
> configure is run. OSX also comes with /usr/bin/libtool, inherited
> from the BSD side of things, which seems to be a functionally similar
> tool, but maybe not identical.
I believe that the primary purpose of installing libtool on a
system is for developers who want to create programs that use
libtool. I do not think that the installed libtool is used by
PSPP (or other libtool-based programs); rather, the libtool
included with the package is used.
> I found at least one explicit reference to "./libtool" -- I
> hope that no part of the build scripts pull in the system
> libtool accidentally. I'll try rebuilding with the new
> tarball.
Great.
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Ben Pfaff
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