Re: libtool problem on system with 32 and 64 bit libraries

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 3 Apr 2009, Bernd Speiser wrote:

> I am using autotools on openSUSE 11.0 x86_64 where I have a couple of 
> libraries (notably the X libraries) installed as both 32 and 64 bit versions. 
> I seem to have a problem which has been discussed several times on this list 
> (libtool tries to link the 32 bit libraries instead of the 64 bit ones, 
> resulting in a `could not read symbols: File in wrong format' error), 
> however, all the ideas suggested there do not seem to work here.
>
> This are the versions of the autotools
> autoconf: 2.61
> automake: 1.10.1
> libtool: 1.5.26

It seems that your libtool is out of date.  The current release is 
2.2.6.  It is likely to work better.

Bob
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