Re: print/hplip fails to build

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Thomas Klausner <wiz%gatalith.at@localhost> writes:

> On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 01:34:17PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 07:11:26AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> > But why was USE_LIBTOOL removed?  I couldn't find anything in commit
>> > messages explaining that.  How does it work on mac without libtool?
>> 
>> Because upstream deprecated their libtool support.
>
> Sorry for being terse - they turned off libtool support by default.
> You can still turn it on if you want, and perhaps we should do it for
> pkgsrc - I just thought we'd follow suit instead of fighting.
>
> But if it helps on macOS, add the lines you suggested, but I think you
> also need to add
>
> CONFIGURE_ARGS+=       --enable-libtool_unsupported=${LIBTOOL}

I don't actually want to use this on macOS, so I think I'll decline to
tilt at upstream as long as it works on NetBSD.  I will just hope
without a rational basis that upstream is paying attention to
portability.