Re: libtool: gentoo patch breaking on Debian amd64.

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Kurt,

* Kurt Roeckx wrote on Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 01:14:43PM CET:
> 
> I came accross a package that failed to build on Debian amd64
> where it tried to link the static library instead of the shared
> one.  This seems to have been caused by a change to libtool,
> which seems to come from gentoo.  The bug in the Debian bug
> tracking system for this is:
> http://bugs.debian.org/344662
> 
> The change in libtool.m4 seems to be:
> +  # Find out which ABI we are using (multilib Linux x86_64 hack).
*snip*
> I'm not really sure why this breaks anything though.  My guess
> would be that you're removing paths it needs.

I'm not convinced yet that this is the cause for the breakage.
It may well be, though.

In any case, it's a system-specific patch; it was not accepted into
GNU libtool simply because it's not valid for all GNU/Linux
distributions.  Don't blame libtool for their non-uniformity.

Since I don't have a Debian amd64 system for testing, please rerun
the build, post the
  ./libtool --mode=link
command, and all of its output, with --debug added.  Please also post
  ./libtool --config

I assume that I can get the source of the corresponding package
(the exact one please!) from these URLs, right?
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/cpufrequtils/cpufrequtils_0.4.orig.tar.gz
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/cpufrequtils/cpufrequtils_0.4-1.diff.gz

Cheers,
Ralf