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Porting libtool to minix3: testsuite fails because configure parms are n


From: Kees van Reeuwijk
Subject: Porting libtool to minix3: testsuite fails because configure parms are not propagated.
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:08:57 +0100
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Hi,

I have tried porting libtool to the minix3 operating system (see www.linux3.org). For a large part it seems to be working: running configure and then gmake all install works. However, there is one big obstacle: make check fails because some configure parameters are not propagated.

Minix has a native compiler, assembler, loader, and archiver, called cc, as, ld, and ar, respectively. It also has the GNU compiler, assembler, loader, and archiver, called gcc, gas, gld, and gar, respectively.

For libtool the GNU variants are used, and for the top-level configure script it is easy to select them by passing arguments like LD=gld to configure. However, the testsuite also runs configure on its own little projects, and there no selection of tools is possible. Unfortunately, this means that the testsuite fails, because now the native toolchain is used.

At least conceptually this could be fixed easily by propagating the tool selection specifications to the configure runs in the testsuite, but I'm not familiar enough with the libtool build system to know whether this is feasible in practice.

Sincerely,

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Dr. Ir. Kees van Reeuwijk, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam




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