Re: AARRRRGGH! Die Libtool, die!

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > WTF is it recompiling stuff during installation? 
> 
> I'm not particularly fond of that "feature" either.  I think it has to
> do with trying to have libs that will work from the install tree vs
> libs that will work from the build tree.  (i.e. perhaps different
> -rpaths, etc., and it may be aggravated by cross-platform issues).
> 
> If you haven't done it already, I'd try a "make distclean" and
> (re)running ./autogen.sh and see if that helps.  If not, we'll try
> something else.

Ah, distclean. I only did "make clean". Thanks, it seems to work now.

> (Personally, I'd rather have all those tools (auto* included) written
>  in something like perl -- it's nearly as ubiquitous and *far* more
>  managable.  Of course perl couldn't use them then, but AFAIK, it
>  doesn't anyway.)

I would use Python myself, but otherwise I concur.

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