Re: Any documentation for "--tag" ?

[Peter O'Gorman]

On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 22:46 +0100, Phil Endecott wrote:
> Dear libtool experts,
> 
> I'm the author of a C++ Apache module which uses an Apache-supplied 
> libtool in its build process.
> 
> Some time ago people started reporting the "unable to infer tagged 
> configuration" error from libtool.  It seemed to depend on particular 
> distribution / version issues, but I never saw it myself.  Someone 
> worked out that the solution was to add "--tag=CXX", but I don't know 
> how they worked that out since I have never found any documentation for 
> this mysterious --tag option.
> 
> Having recently upgraded something I have now started to see this 
> message myself, so I think it's time to work out what is going on.
> 
> So, my main question is, is there any documentation for "--tag"?  It 
> doesn't seem to be mentioned in the online manual at 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual.html.
> 
> Now as I understand it the libtool that is supplied by Apache is 
> somehow customised by them.  So is there something that they should do 
> so that their libtool automatically recognises C++ compilation without 
> the need for --tag?

I think it is documented in 1.5.23b, and will be documented for sure in
1.5.24.


Peter