[gentoo-user] Learning to use libtool

[gentoo-user] Learning to use libtool

[Kevin O'Gorman]

I'm trying to learn about libtool for the New Riders book "GNU
Attoconf, Automake and libtool", and I'm stymied early on.  It wants
me to run a "ltconfig" program that does not seem to exist.  It said
to find a few things in /usr/local/share/libtool, and I found all but
one of them in /usr/share/libtool, but no ltconfig.

I'm in a similar fix on Ubunu, the only other Linux I have at home.

Can anyone enlighten me?

++ kevin
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Learning to use libtool

[Mike Kazantsev]

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On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:19:19 -0800
"Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to learn about libtool for the New Riders book "GNU
> Attoconf, Automake and libtool", and I'm stymied early on.  It wants
> me to run a "ltconfig" program that does not seem to exist.  It said
> to find a few things in /usr/local/share/libtool, and I found all but
> one of them in /usr/share/libtool, but no ltconfig.

Prehaps it's just a typo and the program in question is "ldconfig"?


> I'm in a similar fix on Ubunu, the only other Linux I have at home.

Illustrates the fact that typos can be anywhere ;)


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Re: [gentoo-user] Learning to use libtool

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Mike Kazantsev
<mike_kazantsev@fraggod.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:19:19 -0800
> "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to learn about libtool for the New Riders book "GNU
>> Attoconf, Automake and libtool", and I'm stymied early on.  It wants
>> me to run a "ltconfig" program that does not seem to exist.  It said
>> to find a few things in /usr/local/share/libtool, and I found all but
>> one of them in /usr/share/libtool, but no ltconfig.
>
> Prehaps it's just a typo and the program in question is "ldconfig"?
>
>
>> I'm in a similar fix on Ubunu, the only other Linux I have at home.
>
> Illustrates the fact that typos can be anywhere ;)

It appears the book is just out of date.  I need newer references.
It's definitely not ldconfig that's wanted, but a program that
configures a local copy of libtool itself.  Maybe it's now obsolete.
So I'm looking for a new reference.  All I've found so far is some
acrobat slides -- lots of them, but they have all the problems
inherent in slide presentations without a presenter.

++ kevin


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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] Learning to use libtool

[Albert Hopkins]

> It appears the book is just out of date.  I need newer references.
> It's definitely not ldconfig that's wanted, but a program that
> configures a local copy of libtool itself.  Maybe it's now obsolete.
> So I'm looking for a new reference.  All I've found so far is some
> acrobat slides -- lots of them, but they have all the problems
> inherent in slide presentations without a presenter.

Not to sound like a dick, but did you even bother to look at the libtool
home page[1]?  There's a crapload of information there, including to the
answer to the mystery behind the missing ltconfig.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/

Re: [gentoo-user] Learning to use libtool

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:32 AM, Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org> wrote:
>
>> It appears the book is just out of date.  I need newer references.
>> It's definitely not ldconfig that's wanted, but a program that
>> configures a local copy of libtool itself.  Maybe it's now obsolete.
>> So I'm looking for a new reference.  All I've found so far is some
>> acrobat slides -- lots of them, but they have all the problems
>> inherent in slide presentations without a presenter.
>
> Not to sound like a dick, but did you even bother to look at the libtool
> home page[1]?  There's a crapload of information there, including to the
> answer to the mystery behind the missing ltconfig.
>
> [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/

Thanks.  This is helpful no matter what it sounds like.





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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD