[vlc-devel] [PATCH 1/3] tools: require libtool along with automake

Sean McGovern gseanmcg at gmail.com
Thu Jul 17 13:45:41 CEST 2014


On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 6:22 AM, Rafaël Carré <funman at videolan.org> wrote:

> On 07/16/14 00:26, Sean McGovern wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 5:54 AM, Rafaël Carré <funman at videolan.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On 07/03/14 01:54, Sean McGovern wrote:
> >>> ---
> >>>  extras/tools/tools.mak |    2 +-
> >>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/extras/tools/tools.mak b/extras/tools/tools.mak
> >>> index d88ea63..7c426b8 100644
> >>> --- a/extras/tools/tools.mak
> >>> +++ b/extras/tools/tools.mak
> >>> @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ automake: automake-$(AUTOMAKE_VERSION).tar.gz
> >>>       $(UNPACK)
> >>>       $(MOVE)
> >>>
> >>> -.automake: automake .autoconf
> >>> +.automake: automake .autoconf .libtool
> >>>       (cd $<; ./configure --prefix=$(PREFIX) && $(MAKE) && $(MAKE)
> >> install)
> >>>       touch $@
> >>
> >> Do we actually use make check?
> >> libtool is apparently only used for tests
> >
> >
> > I'm not sure about the only used for tests part, but my recent issues
> with
> > building fribidi after Rafaël's patch are fixed with this applied.
>
> Is libtool not built otherwise?
>
>
In my case it isn't as I do have it already as /usr/bin/libtool (it's even
the same version -- 2.4.2 !). Not sure why it doesn't pick that up -- do it
and auto* have to live in the same bin/ directory?

-- Sean McG.
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