* Mike Frysinger wrote on Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 01:41:32AM CEST: > On Sunday 13 April 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > So don't do this, please. Supply --tag=CC if your compiler name doesn't > > match. > > i doubt people will care at this point, but ive done a bit of work in Gentoo > to make the tag inferring "better". ive done this as there are still a few > packages out there that insist on using libtool found in $PATH. we've been > killing them off over time, but we still havent gotten them all, so this > painful patch lives on. > http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-devel/libtool/files/1.5.6/libtool-1.5-filter-host-tags.patch
Well, this patch is really ugly. Not only is it a further cause of overhead, it also can induce using libtool with a compiler or host system for which it hasn't been configured. Which can cause all kinds of interesting failures. So really please supply --tag to fix these. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
