On Thursday 26 January 2006 11:16, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> On Thursday 26 January 2006 16:34, Mikey wrote:
> > And those instructions have nothing whatsoever to do with common sense
> > from a new, or even experienced users perspective.  Knowing that a gcc
> > upgrade will break libtool is not common sense, nor is it commonly known.
>
> It will not break libtool.

it does and it doesnt

/usr/bin/libtool hardcodes the paths to internal gcc files

normally this isnt an issue as most packages now generate and use their own 
copy of libtool so that they always have the current toolchain information

a few older packages however (jpeg comes to mind) use the system libtool 
instead of bundling their own
-mike
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