packages released with libtool-2.5.0 likely fail to build on mips64

packages released with libtool-2.5.0 likely fail to build on mips64

[Andreas K. Huettel]

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When a tarball has been generated with libtool-2.5.0, the check for 
dynamic library capability will fail on mips64.

(find is not found and the linker emulation is constructed incorrectly.)

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtool.git/commit/?h=development&id=9a4a02615c9e7cbcfd690ed31874822a7d6aaea2


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Re: packages released with libtool-2.5.0 likely fail to build on mips64

[Bruno Haible]

Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> When a tarball has been generated with libtool-2.5.0, ...

Why would anyone do that? libtool-2.5.x are unstable (testing)
releases, distributed through alpha.gnu.org, not ftp.gnu.org.
Explicitly classified as an "alpha" release in the announcement [1].

Bruno

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2024-05/msg00006.html

Re: packages released with libtool-2.5.0 likely fail to build on mips64

[Eli Schwartz]

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On 6/16/24 10:48 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
>> When a tarball has been generated with libtool-2.5.0, ...
> 
> Why would anyone do that? libtool-2.5.x are unstable (testing)
> releases, distributed through alpha.gnu.org, not ftp.gnu.org.
> Explicitly classified as an "alpha" release in the announcement [1].
> 
> Bruno

According to repology, libtool 2.5.0 has been packaged by:

- Arch Linux -- marked as stable and *only* version of libtool

- Gentoo -- marked as alpha, cannot be installed unless opting in on a
  per-package basis, otherwise only 2.4.7 is available for installation.

Whether there are also people building their own libtool by hand I do
not know.


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Re: packages released with libtool-2.5.0 likely fail to build on mips64

[Andreas K. Huettel]

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Am Sonntag, 16. Juni 2024, 16:27:26 CEST schrieb Andreas K. Huettel:
> When a tarball has been generated with libtool-2.5.0, the check for 
> dynamic library capability will fail on mips64.
> 
> (find is not found and the linker emulation is constructed incorrectly.)
> 
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtool.git/commit/?h=development&id=9a4a02615c9e7cbcfd690ed31874822a7d6aaea2
> 

Affects pcre2-10.44 ...

checking whether the mips64-unknown-linux-gnuabi64-gcc linker (/usr/mips64-unknown-linux-gnuabi64/bin/ld -m elf) supports shared libraries... /usr/mips64-unknown-linux-gnuabi64/bin/ld: unrecognised emulation mode: elf
Supported emulations: elf64btsmip elf64ltsmip elf32btsmipn32 elf32ltsmipn32 elf32btsmip elf32ltsmip
no



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