[Glibc-bsd-devel] Re: Please update libtool for GNU/k*BSD port.

[Robert Millan]

FYI. This is bug #242950.

On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 08:17:35PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> Package: general
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: sid
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> In order to support the porting efforts based on Glibc and kernels of *BSD
> (GNU/kFreeBSD and GNU/kNetBSD), for which I'm the principal developer, we
> need to update every package that uses libtool to version 1.5.2-1 or later.
> 
> I've filed wishlist bugs for this to a few specific packages, but the bulk
> of libtool-using libraries in Debian is yet to be updated. Each maintainer
> can help by doing either of these things (preferably both):
> 
>   - Update the libtool in your package. You can do that by running the
>     following commands in the package source tree (Make sure you're using
>     libtool 1.5.2-1 or later):
> 
> 	libtoolize -c -f
> 	aclocal (-Im4 might be needed if there's an "m4" template dir)
> 	autoconf
> 
>     If your package uses a tar-in-tar system you'll have to run these
>     commands on build time by other means. Particularly, if you use CDBS
>     the DEB_AUTO_UPDATE_{LIBTOOL,AUTOMAKE,AUTOCONF} variables can help you.    
> 
>   - Ask upstream to update libtool in their next release. The upstream version
>     of libtool supports GNU/k*BSD since version 1.5.2, so you can tell them
>     to use any version equal or later than that for the update.
> 
> Thanks for your cooperation.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Kernel: Linux 2.4.25-1-k7
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

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Robert Millan

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