Re: [Libguestfs] Strange libtool problem

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 03:52:02PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:17:23AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >> On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 05:11:34PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >> > I'm not sure if this is related to me updating to gcc 4.6.0 or not, > >> > but in the gnulib/lib directory I get an error which comes down to the > >> > following libtool command running: > >> > > >> > $ ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -std=gnu99 -std=gnu99 > >> > -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -g -O2 -MT c-ctype.lo -MD -MP -MF > >> > .deps/c-ctype.Tpo -c -o c-ctype.lo c-ctype.c > >> > ../../libtool: line 2075: c-ctype.c: command not found > >> > libtool: compile: gcc -std=gnu99 -std=gnu99 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H > >> > -I. -I../.. -g -O2 -MT c-ctype.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/c-ctype.Tpo -c > >> > "" -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/c-ctype.o > >> > gcc: error: : No such file or directory > >> > gcc: fatal error: no input files > >> > compilation terminated. > >> > > >> > Note how the -c option is converted to -c "". Also the error > >> > "c-ctype.c: command not found" which comes from a function very deep > >> > in libtool which is called from all over the place. > >> > > >> > I've tried recreating libtool, but to no effect. > >> > >> I'm still getting this problem, now with hivex. It seems to be that > >> libtool is broken. > > > > I pushed this workaround: > > > > http://git.annexia.org/?p=hivex.git;a=commitdiff;h=27c45a5a1e5527f4689436... > > > > It's obviously not a real fix, but works for me. > > Nice. > Do you know if it's still present when using the latest upstream > version of libtool? Not tried. I'm using the very latest from Rawhide though which is libtool-2.4-4.fc15.x86_64. Is there an easy way to use libtool w/o installing it?