The patch that I used yesterday successfully for numerous libraries (over 
40 different projects built and installed on DragonFly) follows:

--- /home/reed/pkg/share/aclocal/libtool.m4.orig	2006-03-02 10:18:11.000000000 -0800
+++ /home/reed/pkg/share/aclocal/libtool.m4	2006-03-02 10:21:37.000000000 -0800
@@ -1415,13 +1415,13 @@
     esac
   fi
   version_type=freebsd-$objformat
-  case $version_type in
-    freebsd-elf*)
+  case $objformat in
+    elf)
       library_names_spec='${libname}${release}${shared_ext}$versuffix ${libname}${release}${shared_ext} $libname${shared_ext}'
       need_version=no
       need_lib_prefix=no
       ;;
-    freebsd-*)
+    *)
       library_names_spec='${libname}${release}${shared_ext}$versuffix $libname${shared_ext}$versuffix'
       need_version=yes
       ;;
@@ -1440,7 +1440,7 @@
     shlibpath_overrides_runpath=no
     hardcode_into_libs=yes
     ;;
-  freebsd*) # from 4.6 on
+  *) # from 4.6 on, and DragonFly
     shlibpath_overrides_runpath=yes
     hardcode_into_libs=yes
     ;;


This or something like it should be in official libtool and libtool.m4.

This based on what pkgsrc's manual patch has. Thanks!

 Jeremy C. Reed

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