[arch-dev-public] Libtool issues

[Jan de Groot]

On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 10:12 +0100, Andreas Radke wrote:
> Am Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:04:27 +0100
> schrieb Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net>:
> 
> > On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 18:35 -0800, Tobias Kieslich wrote:
> > > 	Doing my exiv2 update I saw that this time really some
> > > packages must be rebuilt. However, digikam can't be rebuilt because
> > > it depends on a libgphoto2 that was rebuilt with libtool-1.x based
> > > version. libgphoto2 can't be rebuild with libtool2 because it just
> > > bails. I have not found any patch/hint how to fix that. Can anyone
> > > come up with an idea? I have no real libtool experience.
> > > 
> > > 	-T
> > 
> > I'm working on libtool fixes for gphoto2.
> > I've got gphoto2 built completely, but when generating the fdi file
> > inside the PKGBUILD, it bails out due to a Bus Error.
> > 
> > >From libtool changelog:
> > 
> > - Fix 2.2 regression in libltdl that causes memory corruption upon
> >   repeated `lt_dlinit(); lt_dlexit()'.
> > 
> > - Fix 2.2 regression in that `libtool --mode=execute CMD ARGS' does
> > not transform ARGS that do not look like shell or C wrappers of
> > libtool programs.
> > 
> > I'll backport the fixes and upload a fixed libtool to testing.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> how's the state? has libtool-2.2-2 all needed fixes? something left
> that holds us back to move it?
> 
> tpowa? Jan? should it also go into the release?
> 
> -Andy

AFAIK libtool 2.2-2 has not been built for i686 yet, and there's a lot
of programs in the repository that links to the old libltdl.so.3 file. I
think we should postpone libtool for after release, it introduces too
many breaks at this moment.