Re: Building ncurses with libtool (32/64 bit)

[Albert Chin]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 05:59:40PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 09:46:59AM -0600, Albert Chin wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 05:16:47AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Albert Chin wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Is there a reason AC_PROG_LIBTOOL isn't called to build a _custom_
> > > > libtool to build ncurses? If someone wants to build 32 and 64-bit
> > > 
> > > I hadn't noticed the macro (will look & see).
> > 
> > I've attached the patch we use. It's against the latest version. The
> > only thing missing is a way to bring in libtool.m4.
> 
> hmm - libtool.m4 is a hack which relies on bundling libtool with an
> application, and using that instead of the system's version.

Well, it's not a hack. It just builds a custom libtool to the compiler
you're using. If not, then you'd have to have a custom libtool for
every compiler on your system.

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albert chin (address@hidden)