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Hello, |
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We recently switched development platform from RedHat/Fedora to Gentoo. |
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Great you'd say. However, now our users (most notably on Solaris) complain |
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that our small utility's "./configure" bails out with the dreadful message: |
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*** [Gentoo] sanity check failed! *** |
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*** libtool.m4 and ltmain.sh have a version mismatch! *** |
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*** (libtool.m4 = 1.5.20, ltmain.sh = ) *** |
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Please run: ... |
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When in fact there is no mismatch. It seems Solaris regular "grep" or "sed" do |
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not handle "[[:space:]]" syntax used in libtool.m4's _LT_VERSION_CHECK macro. |
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gentoo_ltmain_version=`grep '^[[:space:]]*VERSION=' $ltmain | sed -e... |
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In other words, it breaks portability. And let this be the one thing people |
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expect from using GNU's ubiquitous autotools. Our comments follow: |
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a) wouldn't a '^VERSION=' be sufficient? |
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(strict but portable, at least we patched our libtool.m4 this way) |
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b) keep syntax, checks needed for proper grep/sed |
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(too elaborated) |
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c) follow advice on <http://www.mail-archive.com/libtool@×××.org/msg08172.html> |
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(func_check_version_match sounds neat, don't know how to use yet ;-) |
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Thanks for reading. If one considers to implement c) we 'll be eager to help. |
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After all, we appreciate Gentoo very much. |
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Greetings, |
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Erik |
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