On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 20:08, Geoff Keating wrote: > On Feb 3, 2004, at 12:04 PM, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 22:56, Geoff Keating wrote: > > (snipped to just the relevant lines) > > > >> I built libtool-1.5.2 on powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0 by: > >> $ ./configure --prefix=$HOME --program-prefix=g > >> $ glibtoolize -c --force > >> cp: /Network/Servers/cauchy/homes/thorin/gkeating/share/libtool/ > >> config.guess: No such file or directory > >> > >> $ ls -1 /Network/Servers/cauchy/homes/thorin/gkeating/share/libtool/ > >> gconfig.guess > >> gconfig.sub > >> > > Automake is applying the various program changes to _SCRIPTS... > > > > I don't even know *HOW* we can support program-prefix, program-suffix > > (and worst of all) program-transform-name ... I can't think of any way > > of getting the resulting transform into libtoolize; at least not one > > that doesn't make me violently sick. > > I'd suggest doing the reverse, which is to not transform these names. > There's no reason to rename anything in $prefix/share/libtool. > That falls under the preview of Automake -- it isn't something we deliberately do.
> > The Autoconf manual does say "if the package supports it", maybe we > > should just not support it and mercilessly flay anyone who tries? > > On Darwin, there's already a program in /usr/bin called 'libtool', and > it's not any relation to the GNU one, which makes it a bit inconvenient > if you can't rename the installed libtool. > There's no particular reason you can't rename it and libtoolize afterwards, just the Autoconf/Automake --program-prefix is being "unhelpful" here. Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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