[Xfce-bugs] [XFCE 0000153]: Please consider using libtool 1.5.2 to generate your auto* files

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http://bugs.xfce.org/view_bug_page.php?f_id=153
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Reporter:                   huggie
Handler:                    
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Project:                    XFCE
Bug ID:                     0000153
Category:                   general
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2004-03-25 19:54 GMT
Last Modified:              2004-03-25 20:25 GMT
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Summary:                    Please consider using libtool 1.5.2 to generate your auto* files
Description: 
The autotools generated files generated for all the xfce4 packages are
generated with libtool 1.5

This breaks arm on linux due to a libtool bug which was fixed in version
1.5.2 of libtool.

I'd really appreciate it if you could use libtool 1.5.2 in future to
generate your auto* files as it would make my life easier (as the guy
that's most probably going to put the packages in Debian again).

http://people.debian.org/~keybuk/libtool-pass_all.html explains the issue
a bit.

See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=190569
and http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=191133
for some real life failures (not with xfce4)

I was talking about this on IRC with benny and he suggested I file a bug
here.

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 olivier - 2004-03-25 20:25 GMT 
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Mixed feeling about this;

1) I've updated the GNU toolchain we use because of a bug that was
preventing our binaries from working on AMD64, and that one works now
2) Changing the toolchain on a stable release is not something I enjoy
3) Running autogen.sh prior to packaging the Debain package for ARM
shouldn't be too much of a trouble IMO.

Olivier.