Periodically, I face situations like this: libtool fails in some
situation on a new operating system. The problem is already fixed
upstream or can be fixed easily, but most of the packages I build are
packaged with an old version. Recent examples include the DESTDIR bug
with relinking in 1.4.x an
> When libtool builds these convenience libraries, it adds the static
> libstdc++ library (by extracting the contents of libstdc++, then
> adding it to the convenience library)
I'm seeing the same thing on Solaris 9, with a gcc installed without
shared libraries. (I sent a note about it to [EMAIL
