dead code in build.sh?

[Adrian Bunk]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 02:50:16PM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 01:48:28PM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> >> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >>> What serious problems do you have when you are using the autotools in 
> >>> the X.Org components?
> >> When building the packages for my distro, the only serious problem I have
> >> is having to basically remove libtool from the compilation/linking steps
> >> since it refuses to allow me to specify the correct linker flags and insists
> >> it knows more about my platform's linker than the people who write it.
> >> ...
> > 
> > Do you have any pointer to details?
> 
> Sorry, but I've kept no log of my cursing every time I found new
> libtool-induced bugs I had to work around.

Are you reporting them upstream?

> libtool 2.x is better than 1.x, which made it impossible to correctly
> build 64-bit libraries on Solaris, since it hardcoded in the libtool
> script the ld flag for 64-bit builds, and thus failed when using
> $(LD)=$(CC) as recommended to ensure the right language-specific
> bits/flags are passed to the linker by the compiler.
>...

That was fixed after somone reported it upstream (the report was 
actually that the Solaris 7 ld doesn't understand it).

The fix even made it into the 1.5.26 release.

cu
Adrian

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