bug#7698: aclocal generates too strict a check for name-lister

2010-12-22 Thread Ximin Luo
I have a core2 system, and have been trying to compile GMP 5.0.1 optimised for other x86 CPUs, by doing (e.g.) $ ./configure --host=pentium4-$(./config.guess | cut -d- -f2-) However, these fail with an obscure error message about `link -dump -symbols` (see snippet 1). After a convoluted path of d

bug#7698: aclocal generates too strict a check for name-lister

2010-12-22 Thread Ximin Luo
On 21/12/10 13:36, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > The bug you're hitting must be located in a third-part macro, since no > automake-provided macro do something similar to that. And in fact, it > seems to come from GMP-5.0.1's own acinclude.m4 (which is *not* the same > as aclocal.m4! see the automake

bug#7698: aclocal generates too strict a check for name-lister

2010-12-22 Thread Ximin Luo
On 22/12/10 00:55, Peter Rosin wrote: > FWIW, It smells exactly like a bug that was fixed in libtool 2.2.8 related > to this NEWS entry: I did some more poking around - this bug is in libtool, but not the one you mention. The "responsible snippet" I pasted above is from libtool.m4, and it exists i