Re: GNU Libtool 2.4 released [stable]

2010-10-01 Thread Charles Wilson
On 10/1/2010 4:22 PM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Charles Wilson > wrote: ^^^ >> Please, over the past three months there were hundreds of messages >> discussing sysroot and how it shoold be handled. While libtool's >> support is not yet c

Re: GNU Libtool 2.4 released [stable]

2010-10-01 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Charles Wilson wrote: > Please, over the past three months there were hundreds of messages > discussing sysroot and how it shoold be handled.  While libtool's > support is not yet complete, what IS there is the result of those > discussions.  Please read them; I hav

Re: GNU Libtool 2.4 released [stable]

2010-10-01 Thread Charles Wilson
On 10/1/2010 2:23 AM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > I wanted to see the process this way... > > export SYSROOT=/tmp/root1 > > package1: ./configure > package1: make install DESTDIR=/tmp/root1 > > package2: ./configure > package2: make install DESTDIR=/tmp/root2 What you are missing is that "sysroot" is

Re: GNU Libtool 2.4 released [stable]

2010-10-01 Thread Paolo Bonzini
> package1: ./configure > package1: make install DESTDIR=/tmp/root1 > > package2: ./configure > package2: make install DESTDIR=/tmp/root2 > > 1. No need to update existing builds, adding --with-sysroot to all > configure statements is harder. Hardly impossible though. > 2. You can assume DESTDIR

Re: GNU Libtool 2.4 released [stable]

2010-09-30 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > On 09/27/2010 03:41 PM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: >> >> ‎Thanks for the explanation! >> >> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Ralf Wildenhues   >> wrote: Also, why not take the value of the sysroot from the DESTDIR automake variable

Re: GNU Libtool 2.4 released [stable]

2010-09-30 Thread Charles Wilson
On 9/30/2010 7:19 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Note that it's perfectly possible to use .la files on the final system > that didn't go through "libtool --mode=finish", as long as all the > packages you compile are upgraded to Libtool 2.4 (and IIUC, cygwin's > packaging system for example is already r

Re: GNU Libtool 2.4 released [stable]

2010-09-30 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 09/27/2010 03:41 PM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: ‎Thanks for the explanation! On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Also, why not take the value of the sysroot from the DESTDIR automake variable? Because we know DESTDIR far too late, only at 'make install' time and not yet at th

Re: GNU Libtool 2.4 released [stable]

2010-09-27 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Alon, * Alon Bar-Lev wrote on Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 03:41:36PM CEST: > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >> Also, why not take the value of the sysroot from the DESTDIR automake > >> variable? > > > > Because we know DESTDIR far too late, only at 'make install' time a

Re: GNU Libtool 2.4 released [stable]

2010-09-27 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
‎Thanks for the explanation! On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> Also, why not take the value of the sysroot from the DESTDIR automake >> variable? > > Because we know DESTDIR far too late, only at 'make install' time and > not yet at the time we link against dependent lib

Re: GNU Libtool 2.4 released [stable]

2010-09-25 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Alon, * Alon Bar-Lev wrote on Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 10:53:36AM CEST: > > - Sysroot support. This allows you to build cross-compiled packages > > with the same prefix that will be used on the destination machine, > > and still find dependent libraries under the compiler's "sysroot". > > Withou

Re: GNU Libtool 2.4 released [stable], yet might not be an immediate drop in replacement for version 2.2.10

2010-09-25 Thread Kyle Sallee
I wondered the same as did Alon. Also I noticed that httpd version 2.2.16 failed compilation with libtool version 2.4 installed Compile log looks like: found apr source: srclib/apr found apr-util source: srclib/apr-util rebuilding srclib/apr/configure buildconf: checking installation... buildconf

Re: GNU Libtool 2.4 released [stable]

2010-09-25 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
> New in 2.4 2010-09-22: > >        • New features: > - Sysroot support. This allows you to build cross-compiled packages > with the same prefix that will be used on the destination machine, > and still find dependent libraries under the compiler's "sysroot". > Without sysroot support, paths intern