From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
To: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Package of libtool?
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 19:34:02 +0200
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> IIRC, libtool in packages I looked into used to detect that DJGPP doesn't
> support shared libraries and stop using -fPIC.  Unless my memory fails me
> (wouldn't be the first time ;-), something's changed in libtool, and that
> change is now causing us grief.

The problem seems to have been introduced somewhere between 1.3.4 and 1.4;
when libtool sees you're using gcc, it simply assumes -fPIC.  The current
CVS HEAD fixes this, and I've applied that fix to the 1.4 tree.  I've also
adapted libtool.m4 to work with autoconf 2.50 (which it now requires).
Over the weekend, I'll be looking at the testsuite - some of the tests are
failing.
I'll probably defer an official package until automake 1.5 is available.