From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id g0C6QQR10756 for linux-mips-outgoing; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 22:26:26 -0800 Received: from dea.linux-mips.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g0C6QNg10752 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 22:26:23 -0800 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) id g0C5QKn04944; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 21:26:20 -0800 Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 21:26:20 -0800 From: Ralf Baechle To: "H . J . Lu" Cc: Adrian.Hulse@taec.toshiba.com, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: libtool warning on redhat 7.1 native mipsel compile Message-ID: <20020111212620.A4809@dea.linux-mips.net> References: <20020111120806.A28902@lucon.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020111120806.A28902@lucon.org>; from hjl@lucon.org on Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 12:08:06PM -0800 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 12:08:06PM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote: > > I don't know for sure just yet, the package takes a long time to compile. > > The last time I compiled the package it failed to build - whether it is due > > to the warnings or not I don't really know - maybe not. > > > > libtool is very fragile. If it doesn't cause the failure, I won't touch > it. This bug may result in libraries not getting linked against certain other libraries thus DT_NEEDED entries missing. Frequently that's harmless but it breaks a few packages. I remember fixing this in a large number of RH 7.0 packages. Bug are rarely harmless just their consequences are subtle. Ralf