Re: Building ncurses with libtool (32/64 bit)

[Albert Chin]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 05:16:47AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Albert Chin wrote:
> 
> > Is there a reason AC_PROG_LIBTOOL isn't called to build a _custom_
> > libtool to build ncurses? If someone wants to build 32 and 64-bit
> 
> I hadn't noticed the macro (will look & see).

I've attached the patch we use. It's against the latest version. The
only thing missing is a way to bring in libtool.m4.

-- 
albert chin (address@hidden)

-- snip snip
--- aclocal.m4.orig     Mon Jan 12 05:17:17 2004
+++ aclocal.m4  Thu Jan 15 09:43:46 2004
@@ -3366,8 +3371,6 @@
 dnl symbols for the makefile rules.
 AC_DEFUN([CF_WITH_LIBTOOL],
 [
-LIBTOOL=
-
 # common library maintenance symbols that are convenient for libtool scripts:
 LIB_CREATE='$(AR) -cr'
 LIB_OBJECT='$(OBJECTS)'
@@ -3389,17 +3392,9 @@
        [with_libtool=no])
 AC_MSG_RESULT($with_libtool)
 if test "$with_libtool" != "no"; then
-       if test "$with_libtool" != "yes" ; then
-               CF_PATH_SYNTAX(with_libtool)
-               LIBTOOL=$with_libtool
-       else
-               AC_PATH_PROG(LIBTOOL,libtool)
-       fi
-       if test -z "$LIBTOOL" ; then
-               AC_MSG_ERROR(Cannot find libtool)
-       fi
+       AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
 
-       LIB_CREATE='$(LIBTOOL) --mode=link $(CC) -rpath $(DESTDIR)$(libdir) 
-version-info `cut -f1 $(srcdir)/VERSION` -o'
+       LIB_CREATE='$(LIBTOOL) --mode=link $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -rpath 
$(DESTDIR)$(libdir) -version-info `cut -f1 $(srcdir)/VERSION` -o'
        LIB_OBJECT='$(OBJECTS:.o=.lo)'
        LIB_SUFFIX=.la
        LIB_CLEAN='$(LIBTOOL) --mode=clean'
@@ -3409,27 +3404,7 @@
        LIB_UNINSTALL='$(LIBTOOL) --mode=uninstall'
        LIB_PREP=:
 
-       # Show the version of libtool
-       AC_MSG_CHECKING(version of libtool)
-
-       # Save the version in a cache variable - this is not entirely a good
-       # thing, but the version string from libtool is very ugly, and for
-       # bug reports it might be useful to have the original string.
-       cf_cv_libtool_version=`$LIBTOOL --version 2>&1 | sed -e '2,$d' -e 
's/^[[^1-9]]*//' -e 's/[[^0-9.]].*//'`
-       AC_MSG_RESULT($cf_cv_libtool_version)
-       if test -z "$cf_cv_libtool_version" ; then
-               AC_MSG_ERROR(This is not libtool)
-       fi
-
-       # special hack to add --tag option for C++ compiler
-       case $cf_cv_libtool_version in
-       1.[[5-9]]*|[[2-9]]*)
-               LIBTOOL_CXX="$LIBTOOL --tag=CXX"
-               ;;
-       *)
-               LIBTOOL_CXX="$LIBTOOL"
-               ;;
-       esac
+       LIBTOOL_CXX="$LIBTOOL --tag=CXX"
 else
        LIBTOOL=""
        LIBTOOL_CXX=""
--- c++/Makefile.in.orig        2004-01-12 05:05:13.865894000 -0600
+++ c++/Makefile.in     2004-01-12 05:13:53.177975000 -0600
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
 MODEL          = ../@DFT_OBJ_SUBDIR@
 DESTDIR                = @DESTDIR@
 srcdir         = @srcdir@
+top_builddir   = ..
 prefix         = @prefix@
 exec_prefix    = @exec_prefix@
 libdir         = @libdir@
@@ -148,7 +149,8 @@
        $(RANLIB) $@
 
 ../lib/$(LIBNAME_LIBTOOL) : $(LIB_OBJS)
-       cd ../lib && $(LIBTOOL_LINK) $(CXX) -o $(LIBNAME) $(LIB_OBJS:$o=.lo) \
+       cd ../lib && $(LIBTOOL_LINK) $(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) \
+               -o $(LIBNAME) $(LIB_OBJS:$o=.lo) \
                -rpath $(INSTALL_PREFIX)$(libdir) \
                -version-info $(NCURSES_MAJOR):$(NCURSES_MINOR) $(SHLIB_LIST)
 
--- form/Makefile.in.orig       2004-01-12 05:05:19.119660000 -0600
+++ form/Makefile.in    2004-01-12 05:13:53.234102000 -0600
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
 MODEL          = @DFT_LWR_MODEL@
 DESTDIR                = @DESTDIR@
 srcdir         = @srcdir@
+top_builddir   = ..
 prefix         = @prefix@
 exec_prefix    = @exec_prefix@
 bindir         = @bindir@
--- menu/Makefile.in.orig       2004-01-12 05:05:23.248657000 -0600
+++ menu/Makefile.in    2004-01-12 05:13:53.286743000 -0600
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
 MODEL          = @DFT_LWR_MODEL@
 DESTDIR                = @DESTDIR@
 srcdir         = @srcdir@
+top_builddir   = ..
 prefix         = @prefix@
 exec_prefix    = @exec_prefix@
 bindir         = @bindir@
--- ncurses/Makefile.in.orig    2004-01-12 05:05:27.352423000 -0600
+++ ncurses/Makefile.in 2004-01-12 05:13:53.332660000 -0600
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
 MODEL          = @DFT_LWR_MODEL@
 DESTDIR                = @DESTDIR@
 top_srcdir     = @top_srcdir@
+top_builddir   = ..
 srcdir         = @srcdir@
 prefix         = @prefix@
 exec_prefix    = @exec_prefix@
--- panel/Makefile.in.orig      2004-01-12 05:05:30.331340000 -0600
+++ panel/Makefile.in   2004-01-12 05:13:53.397111000 -0600
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
 MODEL          = @DFT_LWR_MODEL@
 DESTDIR                = @DESTDIR@
 srcdir         = @srcdir@
+top_builddir   = ..
 prefix         = @prefix@
 exec_prefix    = @exec_prefix@
 bindir         = @bindir@
--- progs/Makefile.in.orig      2004-01-12 05:05:30.397807000 -0600
+++ progs/Makefile.in   2004-01-12 05:13:53.451135000 -0600
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@
 MODEL          = ../@DFT_OBJ_SUBDIR@
 DESTDIR                = @DESTDIR@
 srcdir         = @srcdir@
+top_builddir   = ..
 prefix         = @prefix@
 exec_prefix    = @exec_prefix@
 bindir         = @bindir@
--- tack/Makefile.in.orig       2004-01-12 05:05:30.642618000 -0600
+++ tack/Makefile.in    2004-01-12 05:13:55.738731000 -0600
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 MODEL          = ../@DFT_OBJ_SUBDIR@
 DESTDIR                = @DESTDIR@
 srcdir         = @srcdir@
+top_builddir   = ..
 prefix         = @prefix@
 exec_prefix    = @exec_prefix@
 bindir         = @bindir@
--- test/Makefile.in.orig       2004-01-12 05:05:31.097923000 -0600
+++ test/Makefile.in    2004-01-12 05:13:56.179471000 -0600
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
 
 MODEL          = ../@DFT_OBJ_SUBDIR@
 srcdir         = @srcdir@
+top_builddir   = ..
 prefix         = @prefix@
 exec_prefix    = @exec_prefix@
 libdir         = @libdir@