Re: pkg/35307 (libtool vs compiler.mk)

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/35307; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/35307 (libtool vs compiler.mk)
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:53:07 +0100

 On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 05:50:03AM +0000, Dan McMahill wrote:
 >  libtool creates tags which are stored in ${prefix}/bin/libtool and they 
 >  are based on the compiler characteristics in the compiler used to build 
 >  libtool.  This means if you ever try to switch from say f2c-f77 for your 
 >  fortran compiler to gfortran, you'll have a bad libtool and you end up 
 >  having to rebuild everything.
 
 Everything is a bit too much. Rebuildling libtool-base and the fortran
 dependencies should certainly be enough.
 
 Joerg