Re: libtool-base refusing to even start building on ia64-hp-hpux11.31

[Paul Ackersviller <pda%sdf.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Mar 08, 2015 at 08:05:16PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> The message comes from here:
> ...

Yes, I looked there, but didn't really know for what.

> in mk/dlopen.buildlink3.mk. USE_BUILTIN.dl is set by mk/dlopen.builtin.mk, 
> which begins by checking for <dlfcn.h> and -ldl. Most likely, the
> problem is that this check isn't working. Try doing 'bmake show-var
> VARNAME=IS_BUILTIN.dl' in devel/libtool-base. If that prints "no" the
> next step is to figure out why the check fails.

Thanks, the answer is indeed no, that might be enough of a hint.
I'm suspecting something funky with my gcc... will beat on it some more.