On 30 Nov 2023 22:45, Nick Bowler wrote: > Interestingly the libtool manual also says "If [libtool] can't infer a > tag, then it defaults to the configuration for the C language", which is > clearly not the case (it seems what actually happens is that if libtool > can't infer a tag then it exits with a fatal error). So I wonder if > this is actually a regression in libtool.
i'm fairly certain libtool used to do this aaaaaaaaaages ago, and i *think* it stopping was intentional. i recall a lot of pain in Gentoo from that switchup, but tbh, i don't think any of it was "wrong" ... all the fixes we landed were because the code was being misused/abused, and silently doing the wrong thing (especially when cross-compiling). so i personally prefer the new world order, and would say we should lobby for the manual to change rather than rollback the behavior. -mike
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