From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bernhard Fischer Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 19:50:14 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] LZMA in Buldroot. In-Reply-To: <200610051340.06276.rob@landley.net> References: <20061003173002.GA19937@zelow.no> <20061004163742.GA2306@zelow.no> <20061004192606.GO17455@aon.at> <200610051340.06276.rob@landley.net> Message-ID: <20061005175014.GA32372@aon.at> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 01:40:06PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote: >On Wednesday 04 October 2006 3:26 pm, Bernhard Fischer wrote: >> Yes, i left it commented out. I had (and still have) trouble with c++ >> due to an alleged bug with libtool on my ubuntu devel host. Probably i'll >> ditch that install and go back to what i usually run as a sensible base >> to work on. > > > >It took me a while to figure out what libtool was for, but one of my coworkers >explained that the purpose of the thing is to make sure that shared libraries >work as well on Sun and AIX and Hurd and such as they do on Linux. > >You'd think that they'd do this by improving library support on other >platforms rather than breaking Linux's shared library support (at least if >you use libtool) until the other platforms don't look so bad in comparison. >But that's not the FSF way. In the land of the blind, the one-eyed must have >that eye poked out in the name of fairness and equality. > >There is absolutely no reason to use libtool on Linux, and it regularly breaks >when you're cross-compiling from Linux to Linux on different processors. Just to clarify, i'm talking about the gcc internal copy of libtool that seems to misbehave for me. I'm _not_ using libtool to create a library for use in buildroot. > >