GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 560221
libtool usage incorrect (gtk+ does not compile on Ubuntu intrepid)
Last modified: 2009-02-05 11:18:26 UTC
When running autogen.sh you get the following error You must have libtool 1.4 installed to compile Gtk+. Install the appropriate package for your distribution, or get the source tarball at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/ According to ubuntu devs this is gtk+ bug Scott James Remnant wrote 5 hours ago: (permalink) This is clearly a bug in GTK+, which should be updated to use a newer libtool See also https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libtool/+bug/295583
This has long been an issue that is now fixed in trunk.
It's fixed in trunk but not in the 2.14 branch which is the branch that is build for gnome 2.26
Is this a dupe of bug 529336?
*** Bug 560574 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 126211 [details] Building gtk+ (trunk) fails with libtool error. It requires a small change in the files to fix the problem. That is, copy /usr/bin/libtool over the gtk+ supplied libtool. Specifically, a. gtk+ has the file 'libtool', with version 2.2.4 b. my distribution (Ubuntu 8.10) has /usr/bin/libtool with same version, 2.2.4 c. the two files, though same version, have differences in them. d. the differences are in the next attachment.
Created attachment 126212 [details] [review] Diff between gtk+ libtool file and (Ubuntu 8.10) /usr/bin/libtool
Not clear to me what the latest comments here have to do with the original bug. The original problem has been fixed, autogen.sh accepts libtool 2.2 now.
Simos. That's libtool screwing up. It's a libtool bug. Typically running autogen.sh fixes it.
Thanks, I have build gtk+ successfully on Ubuntu 8.10 this morning.
The issue is this one: # Take the output of nm and produce a listing of raw symbols and C names. -global_symbol_pipe="sed -n -e 's/^.*[ ]\\([ABCDGIRSTW][ABCDGIRSTW]*\\)[ ][ ]*\\([_A-Za-z][_A-Za-z0-9]*\\)\$/ /p'" +global_symbol_pipe="sed -n -e 's/^.*[ ]\\([ABCDGIRSTW][ABCDGIRSTW]*\\)[ ][ ]*\\([_A-Za-z][_A-Za-z0-9]*\\)\$/\\1 \\2 \\2/p'" # Transform the output of nm in a proper C declaration. -global_symbol_to_cdecl="sed -n -e 's/^T .* \\(.*\\)\$/extern int ();/p' -e 's/^[ABCDGIRSTW]* .* \\(.*\\)\$/extern char ;/p'" +global_symbol_to_cdecl="sed -n -e 's/^T .* \\(.*\\)\$/extern int \\1();/p' -e 's/^[ABCDGIRSTW]* .* \\(.*\\)\$/extern char \\1;/p'" # Transform the output of nm in a C name address pair. -global_symbol_to_c_name_address="sed -n -e 's/^: \\([^ ]*\\) \$/ {\\\"\\\", (void *) 0},/p' -e 's/^[ABCDGIRSTW]* \\([^ ]*\\) \\([^ ]*\\)\$/ {\"\", (void *) \\&},/p'" +global_symbol_to_c_name_address="sed -n -e 's/^: \\([^ ]*\\) \$/ {\\\"\\1\\\", (void *) 0},/p' -e 's/^[ABCDGIRSTW]* \\([^ ]*\\) \\([^ ]*\\)\$/ {\"\\2\", (void *) \\&\\2},/p'" # Transform the output of nm in a C name address pair when lib prefix is needed. -global_symbol_to_c_name_address_lib_prefix="sed -n -e 's/^: \\([^ ]*\\) \$/ {\\\"\\\", (void *) 0},/p' -e 's/^[ABCDGIRSTW]* \\([^ ]*\\) \\(lib[^ ]*\\)\$/ {\"\", (void *) \\&},/p' -e 's/^[ABCDGIRSTW]* \\([^ ]*\\) \\([^ ]*\\)\$/ {\"lib\", (void *) \\&},/p'" +global_symbol_to_c_name_address_lib_prefix="sed -n -e 's/^: \\([^ ]*\\) \$/ {\\\"\\1\\\", (void *) 0},/p' -e 's/^[ABCDGIRSTW]* \\([^ ]*\\) \\(lib[^ ]*\\)\$/ {\"\\2\", (void *) \\&\\2},/p' -e 's/^[ABCDGIRSTW]* \\([^ ]*\\) \\([^ ]*\\)\$/ {\"lib\\2\", (void *) \\&\\2},/p'" No idea, why GTK+ gets such a broken libtool by default.