Alright, problem solved. > All of you have, at one time in history, reported a bug against libtool > on FREEBSD 5.2.1, concerning this error: > > | checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes > | > | *** Warning: the command libtool uses to detect shared libraries, > | *** /usr/bin/file, produces output that libtool cannot recognize. *snip* > > Now I have set out to kill this bug. But I need help
Turns out this is a non-bug. Exists in libtool-1.3.5 but not in 1.5.x. I have verified this by configuring both on a FreeBSD-recent machine. To conclude: everyone seeing this error, you may point to this thread[1] and tell the respective package authors to _please_ upgrade their shipped libtool (re-libtoolize with newer Libtool package and take care of up-to-date Libtool m4 macros). Thanks everybody for your help and attention. Many thanks to Fred Cox for providing me with shell access (adding him to THANKS). Another note: Since /usr/bin/objformat is supposed to go (marked as obsolete since ages according to manpage), the test ought to be reworked before the next major FreeBSD release. Moreover, branch-2-0 and HEAD seem to have problems w.r.t BSD Make. This is a separate issue and will be dealt with separately. Regards, Ralf [1] See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libtool/2005-03/msg00011.html and the thread around it.
