Re: libtool15: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Mihaela Popescu wrote:
> Making all in libmysql_r
> source='libmysql.c' object='libmysql.lo' libtool=yes
> depfile='.deps/libmysql.Plo' tmpdepfile='.deps/libmysql.TPlo'
> depmode=gcc /bin/sh ../depcomp  /usr/local/bin/libtool15 --mode=compile
> gcc -DDEFAULT_CHARSET_HOME="\"/usr/local\""
> -DDATADIR="\"/var/db/mysql\""  -DSHAREDIR="\"/usr/local/share/mysql\""
> -DDONT_USE_RAID -I. -I. -I..  -I../include     -DDBUG_OFF -02
> -fno-strength-reduce  -D_THREAD_SAFE  -DHAVE_BROKEN_REALPATH -c -o
> libmysql.lo `test -f libmysql.c || echo './'`libmysql.c
> libtool15: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
> libtool15: compile: specify a tag with `--tag'
> *** Error code 1

The reason for this error message is that the first command argument 
provided to libtool is expected to be the name of the compiler used 
while configuring libtool, but some other tool name was found there 
instead.

As an example, it may be that when libtool was configured the 
compiler's name was `cc' but libtool is being provided with `gcc' 
instead during the build.

I believe that recent versions of Automake provide a --tag argument in 
order to avoid possible confusion like this.

Bob
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