Re: libtool: unrecognized option `--tag=CC'

[Ralf Wildenhues]

[ reordered for readability ]

* pete wrote on Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 01:05:24PM CET:
> On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 10:42 +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: 
> > * pete wrote on Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 01:46:41AM CET:
> > > Can someone please tell me why I keep getting this error?
> > > libtool: unrecognized option `--tag=CC'
> > 
> > Unreproducable here.

Shame on me for this typo.  :(

> > > What info do you need?
> > 
> > An example command line including full output.
>
> /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link --tag=CC gcc  -O2 -g -Wall   -o irrecord
> irrecord.o dump_config.o config_file.o hw-types.o ir_remote.o
> hw_default.o receive.o transmit.o
> libtool: unrecognized option `--tag=CC'
> Try `libtool --help' for more information.

(These few lines would've been sufficient information, BTW.)

In your first message, you wrote:

> > > libtool --version
> > > ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.5.6 (1.1220.2.95 2004/04/11 05:50:42)

This is your system's installed libtool script, whereas the package you
compiled uses its own provided libtool script (which is created during
configure).  Please show the version of that -- it's likely much older.

As your build also shows (I've deleted that because I could've guessed
it), the automatic rebuilding rules call `automake' again, which is
likely much newer than the shipped ltmain.sh.  Automake creates the
rules that contain `--tag', and the old libtool does not understand
this.

Solution is to either not change the files of the package (so autoconf
and automake are not triggered), or use AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to prevent
this, or to libtoolize again, update the m4 macros (in aclocal.m4) and
then autoreconf.

Regards,
Ralf