libtool version and build problems on mips/mipsel

[Jasper Huijsmans]

On 10 May 2003 11:29:53 +0200
Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at student.uni-siegen.de> wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-05-10 at 10:37, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> > Benedikt,
> 
> Hey Jasper,
> 
> > I need your opinion on this debian bug:
> > 
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=190232
> > 
> > It appears that building on mips and mipsel architectures requires a
> > higher libtool version.
> > 
> > Since I never had a problem with any libtool version, I'm all for
> > upgrading, but I have no clue about compatibility with other
> > platforms.
> > 
> > So, what's your opinion on this?
> 
> It looks like a Linux/mips-only problem. There are only a few MIPS
> machines out there running Linux. Most of those nice machines run
> other Operating systems which do not have the problem mentioned above,
> so I think it's ok to stay with the old libtool version and let those
> people with a Linux/mips machine run autogen.sh with the required
> libtool/autotools versions.
> 

hmm, does this mean the patched libtool version you posted doesn't work?

And, Martin, does it pose much problems for the Debian build system to
have to use autogen.sh for mips/mipsel? Also, does an issue like this
block the inclusion of XFce4 in Debian?

	Jasper