On 8/20/07, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: > > Is configure not shipped, or does running `make' force autoconf to > > run? The packaging of xfsprogs is misguided, but reading the top level > > Makefile might lead to a shortcut to not running autoconf. > > Running autoconf is needed, because the Makefile uses the host's > libtool. Mismatches between autoconf and libtool usually lead to bad > results. So the real mistake is either not shipping a private copy of > libtool, or shipping the configure script ar all.
Good point, and it may explain why I had a lot of linking issues with xfsprogs a while back. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
