Re: gobject build broken

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Tor Lillqvist <tml iki fi> writes:

> James Henstridge writes:
>  > I was just trying to build glib HEAD again, and ran into some build
>  > trouble with the following error message:
>  >   libtool: link: error: cannot link shared libraries into libtool libraries
> 
>  > Tor's latest patch to gobject/Makefile.am (rev 1.26) adds the following:
>  >   libgobject_1_3_la_LIBADD = $(libglib)
> 
>  > Which ends up dynamically linking one dyanmic libtool library to another,
>  > which libtool-1.3.x doesn't like.  This works with the CVS version of
>  > libtool, so my question is whether we are going to require it for glib and
>  > gtk+ builds now.
> 
> And if requiring a bleeding-edge libtool is not considered a good
> idea, I guess something like this would fix this problem. I.e. use the
> libtool library for LIBADDs on Win32 platforms only.

Could you make this change? I don't want to put any more hurdles
in the way of people building out of CVS than necessary, and
requiring a libtool snapshot would definitely fall into that
category.

Thanks,
                                        Owen