[Libguestfs] Strange libtool problem

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 03:52:02PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:17:23AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >> On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 05:11:34PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >> > I'm not sure if this is related to me updating to gcc 4.6.0 or not,
> >> > but in the gnulib/lib directory I get an error which comes down to the
> >> > following libtool command running:
> >> >
> >> > $ ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -std=gnu99 -std=gnu99
> >> > -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -g -O2 -MT c-ctype.lo -MD -MP -MF
> >> > .deps/c-ctype.Tpo -c -o c-ctype.lo c-ctype.c
> >> > ../../libtool: line 2075: c-ctype.c: command not found
> >> > libtool: compile: gcc -std=gnu99 -std=gnu99 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
> >> > -I. -I../.. -g -O2 -MT c-ctype.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/c-ctype.Tpo -c
> >> > "" -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/c-ctype.o
> >> > gcc: error: : No such file or directory
> >> > gcc: fatal error: no input files
> >> > compilation terminated.
> >> >
> >> > Note how the -c option is converted to -c "".  Also the error
> >> > "c-ctype.c: command not found" which comes from a function very deep
> >> > in libtool which is called from all over the place.
> >> >
> >> > I've tried recreating libtool, but to no effect.
> >>
> >> I'm still getting this problem, now with hivex.  It seems to be that
> >> libtool is broken.
> >
> > I pushed this workaround:
> >
> > http://git.annexia.org/?p=hivex.git;a=commitdiff;h=27c45a5a1e5527f46894361794a1da588086fe0e
> >
> > It's obviously not a real fix, but works for me.
> 
> Nice.
> Do you know if it's still present when using the latest upstream
> version of libtool?

Not tried.  I'm using the very latest from Rawhide though
which is libtool-2.4-4.fc15.x86_64.

Is there an easy way to use libtool w/o installing it?

Rich.

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