Re: libtool, OS X, and GNU ranlib

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Peter,

* Peter O'Gorman wrote on Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 05:00:36PM CEST:
> Yeah, I thought that might be the case. At some point someone installed
> libtool and overwrote /usr/bin/libtool (/usr/bin/ranlib is a symlink to
> libtool).
> 
> He'll have to reinstall his Developer tools, he can get them from
> connect.apple.com after free registration if he can't locate his install
> media.
> 
> I will look at adding a libtool patch to add --program-prefix=g if the
> user installs libtool to /usr (but the user shouldn't be doing that, imo).

IMHO, people installing to /usr need to know what they are doing.
Enabling --program-prefix=g with --prefix=/usr would be quite a surprise
for everyone else who is otherwise familiar with GCS, so I'd prefer not
to go that way.

Thanks,
Ralf