Re: ltconfig version `' does not match ltmain.sh version

[Gary V . Vaughan]

On Friday 22 June 2001 11:37 pm, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> "Gary V. Vaughan" wrote:
> > On Friday 22 June 2001 11:20 am, Tilo Riemer wrote:
> > > what is wrong if I get the following error:
> > >
> > > libtool: ltconfig version ' does not match ltmain.sh version 4a'
> >
> > You are using a mismatched ltmain.sh and ltconfig from different versions
> > of libtool.
>
> IIRC, I have seen this happening when running make after having run
> libtool-1.4's "libtoolize -f" on directories which have previously
> been libtoolized with older libtools. The cause seems to be ltconfig
> not being removed by libtoolize.
>
> As some rpm.specs use %configure, which implies running libtoolize
> -f in some versions of rpm, this has fairly severe consequences on
> building rpms from src.rpms which have been libtoolized with pre-1.4
> versions.
>
> Therefore I'd propose to let libtoolize -f remove ltconfig in
> future.

Agreed.

However, libtool-1.4 doesn't use ltconfig.  ltmain.sh version 1.4a is from 
the multi-language-branch, and seems to be trying to use an old ltconfig 
prior to the version check (ltconfig version ' !!).

Cheers,
        Gary.
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