Re: Mac OS X - libtool problems

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Michail Vidiassov wrote:

> Dear Thomas,
>
> I do not compile ncurses via libtool, but just to have things fixed.
>
> Apple provides libtool that is not command-line compatible with GNU libtool.
> Apple provides GNU libtool as glibtool (/usr/bin/glibtool).
> Package managment system Macports provides GNU libtool as glibtool 
> (/opt/local/bin/glibtool)
> Its competitor Fink installs GNU libtool as  /sw/bin/glibtool or 
> /sw/bin/libtool, I am not sure.
>
> Ergo it looks like a good idea to look for glibtool, if search
> for libtool fails, or libtool turns out not to be GNU libtool.
>
> I am not sure.
> May be the user MUST manually point configure to the correct libtool
> using command-line option if anything is non-standart?

probably - google glibtool finds 19,300 hits, while it finds 2,810,000
for libtool

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