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


From: Thomas Dickey
Subject: Re: Building ncurses with libtool (32/64 bit)
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 19:42:39 -0500 (EST)

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Albert Chin wrote:

> 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.

My current understanding of it (and am still reading) is that it's done
to ensure that the files in the distribution are a particular version.
I'm looking into the possibility of providing a short script which would
use the system's copy of libtool.m4 (preferred from my standpoint for a
lot of reasons).

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
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