Re: svn compile error on solaris 2.8, cc

Greg Hudson wrote:

>On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 16:36, Philip Martin wrote:
>
>
>>Googling for the error reveals a number of projects that have a
>>similar problem, and most of them suspect sed is the culprit. The
>>suggested solution is to use /usr/xpg4/bin/sed or GNU sed instead of
>>/usr/bin/sed.
>>
>>
>
>I can confirm that using gnu sed resolves the problem; I used to have it
>with gtkhtml and evolution.
>
>As best I can understand it, the problem is that libtool does not
>collapse duplicates when expanding library dependencies, nor does it
>rely on shared library dependencies to make listing library dependencies
>unnecessary. So frequently-used libraries like -lsocket and -lz get
>listed over and over and over again. To be fair, properly collapsing
>duplicate library specifications may be tough when your implementation
>language is /bin/sh.
>
>

I can confirm that the solaris build problem goes away if I upgrade to
libtool-1.4.3 (I was using 1.4.2 before). That's it, problem's gone
away... I'm writing a note in INSTALL about this.

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Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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