Re: Building PSPP on a Mac

[Ben Pfaff]

Richard Brittain <address@hidden> writes:

> On the libtool issue, I was wondering just what that gets used for.  I
> noticed that pspp creates its own (shell script) libtool, when
> configure is run.  OSX also comes with /usr/bin/libtool, inherited
> from the BSD side of things, which seems to be a functionally similar
> tool, but maybe not identical.  

I believe that the primary purpose of installing libtool on a
system is for developers who want to create programs that use
libtool.  I do not think that the installed libtool is used by
PSPP (or other libtool-based programs); rather, the libtool
included with the package is used.

> I found at least one explicit reference to "./libtool" -- I
> hope that no part of the build scripts pull in the system
> libtool accidentally.  I'll try rebuilding with the new
> tarball.

Great.
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Ben Pfaff 
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