[gentoo-amd64] Re: Anyone else having libtool problems, especially if running ~amd64?

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> posted pan.2008.02.27.16.01.05@cox.net,
excerpted below, on  Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:01:06 +0000:

> I'm having problems with libtool errors.

> Standard bugz url: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211644

Traced down, thanks to the help I got on-bug.  It was a PEBCAK in the 
form of a bum qt-4.4.0-svn-snapshot ebuild from the forums (needed for 
kde-svn-head, as kde 4.1 will require qt-4.4.0).  The bum ebuild put some 
garbage in a file in /etc/env.d/ that is in turn used by env-update to 
generate /etc/ld.so.conf, thus putting garbage in it.  libtool was trying 
to parse that garbage and of course failing.  Fixing the ebuild (well, 
tested by reverting to an in-tree version of it, qt-4.3.4, 
FEATURES=binpkg makes that about a ten second job) and remerging solved 
the problem. =8^)

It's anyone's guess how long it would have taken me to figure that out on 
my own, as I hadn't the foggiest what to check next, given that I'd 
already tried the usual CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS/LDFLAGS/MAKEOPTS resets and 
revdep-rebuild wasn't helping either.  The devs pointed me right to it, 
even if it wasn't their bug that was the problem. =8^)

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