Package: libtool
Version: 1.6-0+1.5a-4
Severity: important
Hi,
When you do
libtoolize --ltdl --automake --copy --force
the file
libltdl/ltdl.c
contains an invalid definition/use of
LT_USE_WINDOWS_DIRENT_EMULATION
It says
# define LT_USE_WINDOWS_DIRENT_EMULATION
...
# if LT_USE_WINDOWS_DIRENT_EMULATION
which obviously is wrong. LT_USE_WINDOWS_DIRENT_EMULATION should be
defined to 1, or the preprocessor conditional should be #ifdef
This bug is not seen on a GNU or UNIX system (and probably not on Cygwin
either), but only on a true Windows system. That is, if you compile
ltdl.c with something like MSVC.
As such, it's not really a problem for Debian runtime, and it's probably
not even a Debian specific bug. However, I file the bug report with
Debian as I can see that some patches have been applied to the libtool
sources. I guess the maintainer of libtool will forward this report to
the libtool maintainers if applicable.
However, the bug is serious in that it makes the package that uses
ltdl.c less portable than it need to be.
Yours,
Christian
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