[ CCing to debian maintainer and libtool upstream ] Hi there folks.
The libtool upstream maintainers are preparing a new 1.5b release. On their behalf I've recently attempted to test a snapshot from CVS branch-1-5 on all architectures Debian supports (or pretends to support) that I had access to. The results (below) are unfavorable on at least 4 arches, and undetermined on 5 more arches. For any arch that is not marked "ok" below, someone should _urgently_ test and/or fix it before libtool 1.5b is released. For those of you unaware of the insanely detrimental consequences a brokenly released libtool can have for your port, see footnote [5]. For testing libtool branch-1-5, get a CVS snapshot while passing "-r branch-1-5" to the checkout command, and run: export CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/libtool cvs -z9 co -r branch-1-5 libtool ; cd libtool ./bootstrap && ./configure && make && make check ------------------------ host - cpu - test result ------------------------ gluck i386 ok voltaire powerpc ok merulo ia64 17 tests failed casals mips ?? [3] debussy arm ok escher alpha ok raptor s390 3 tests failed paer hppa 4 tests failed crest m68k ?? [3] vore sparc ?? [3] ravel [1] amd64 25 tests failed williams mipsel ?? [2] ?? sh ?? [4] [1] access by request, see w.d.o/ports/amd64/ [2] williams and vaughan are down [3] test fails due to host-related autotools/texinfo/etc stuff [4] no publicly known developer machine available [5] libtool's released code spreads itself to projects using libtool in a way much similar to autoconf or automake. If a libtool release is broken for a particular arch, then all packages that get their libtool updated in upstream will start to fail for that arch, and need individual patching. This is what recently happened to the mips port. -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work." -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)
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