[Glibc-bsd-devel] Re: Please update libtool for GNU/k*BSD port.
Robert Millan
zeratul2@wanadoo.es
Fri, 9 Apr 2004 20:45:52 +0200
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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