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From: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dealing with global /usr/bin/libtool use vs CC/CXX etc.
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2021 22:55:15
Message-Id: 20210117235502.19554e24@abudhabi.paradoxon.rec
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Dealing with global /usr/bin/libtool use vs CC/CXX etc. by Peter Stuge
1 On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 18:36:31 +0000 Peter Stuge wrote:
2
3 >Jaco Kroon wrote:
4 >> > I can think of two ways of solving it:
5 >> >
6 >> > 1. We could patch system-installed libtool to respect environment
7 >> >
8 >> > 2. We could regenerate libtool and force local instance of libtool
9 >> > in the packages needing it.
10 >>
11 >> 3.  Have it always use some fixed compiler somewhere (ie, compile it
12 >>
13 >
14 >4. Make gcc-config regenerate libtool, otherwise as 2.
15 >
16 >
17 >//Peter
18 >
19
20 5.) Try to replace GNU libtool with sys-devel/slibtool
21
22 slibtool is aimed to be a drop-in replacement although at the current
23 state it still has a couple of hiccups. I've created a tracker bug at
24 [1] to track all issues arising from using slibtool instead of GNU
25 libtool.
26
27 Cheers
28 Lars
29
30 [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/765709
31 --
32 Lars Wendler
33 Gentoo package maintainer
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