[csw-maintainers] libtool

Philip Brown phil at bolthole.com
Sun Mar 29 23:17:44 CEST 2009


On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 08:42:51PM +0200, Roger Håkansson wrote:
> Philip Brown wrote:
>> The "generic, and permenant fix", is to track down the dependant packages
>> that are using libtool, and hound the maintainer to remove the .la files
>> :-)
>
> And in this case, the maintainer is "retired" and the "dependant  
> package" is the one I'm trying to build...

"dependant package" is always relative to "the one you are trying to
build".

(althogh "dependant" isnt quite the accurate word. should really be,
  "the package upon which your current package depends, that uses
   libtool .la garbage".
  but that is long and ugly :-)




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