/usr/bin/libtool has:
# Allow error messages only from the first compilation. if test "$suppress_opt" = yes; then suppress_output=' >/dev/null 2>&1' fi ... # Suppress compiler output if we already did a PIC compilation. command="$command$suppress_output" This is presumably intended to ensure that when an object file gets compiled twice (once with -fPIC, once without) warning messages etc. are not duplicated. However, if the second position-dependent run fails (compiler bug, usually, but could also be running out of disk space) it will fail without any error message being printed. Would it make sense to capture output from the second compilation instead of discarding it, then print it if the second compilation fails? Ed _______________________________________________ Bug-libtool mailing list Bug-libtool@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-libtool