Re: ncurses 5.3-20030719

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Chris Zubrzycki wrote:

> > "--with-libtool" overrides (cancels the effect of) the other 3 models
> > ("--with-shared", "--with-normal" and "--with-debug").  Checking with
> > your options, it seems that the parameter for --with-libtool is
> > confusing
> > my script (it's not looking for a value, so "--with-libtool" gives a
> > value of "yes").  I can modify that.  For a workaround, if you set
> > $LIBTOOL to /usr/bin/glibtool, and use the "--with-libtool" option
> > (and discard "--with-shared"), it should work.
>
> Ok, well, I tested this. It does not work correctly. It seems to grab
> the directory that libtool is in, but on os x the gnu libtool is called
> glibtool. When I use --with-libtool=/usr/bin/glibtool it seems to
> correctly grab the libtool name and location, but no .la files are
> created. Very odd indeed...

I'll put something in this week's patch to fix it.

> And you stopped making the c++ dynamic lib? What if some apps depend on
> it? Is there an option to re-enable it?

I didn't _stop_: libtool didn't support it.  I'm told that libtool 1.5
does support c++ shared libraries.

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