FYI: Fwd: (Help Me!) Errors while Compiling NX Src on FREEBSD machine (5.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #0:)

[Ralf Wildenhues]

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.