On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 3:56 AM Ces VLC <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Today I got lots of errors when building one of my projects, about "-static" 
> not being supported by libtool... then I realized that the reason is that 
> such project was developed with the MacOS libtool in mind, and by installing 
> GNU's libtool (because of it being required by CUnit), the GNU version takes 
> higher precedence over the MacOS version, and then it breaks the build for my 
> project.
>
> So... can you give some advice on how to manage the coexistence of both 
> libtools?

When you build libtool from sources, use the '--program-prefix=g'
option to avoid the name collision.

The prefix is also used for some programs, like sed and awk, because
of all the forks floating around.

Jeff

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