Re: building glib2

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:31:58AM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 06:27:53PM +0200, Matthias Drochner wrote:
> > 
> > prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost said:
> > > its the one in work.i386/glib-2.20.3 which has the bad quoting.
> > 
> > So can you try to find out how the newline gets into
> > the string? Afaict this is done by "configure". There
> > is some sed magic involved, perhaps this is where it
> > breaks.
> > 
> > > How does pkgsrc use its own libtool rather than the package's one?
> > 
> > If USE_LIBTOOL is defined, occurences of "libtool" are
> > replaced by a small wrapper which calls the pkgsrc version.
> 
> Not much to report other than:
> - glib2 builds fine on another i386, so I'm playing spot the difference.
> - configure is run (and fails) before libtool is replaced by the pkgsrc 
> version.- glib configure.in is odd in that part of beauty of libtool 2 is 
> that the
>   variables are available directly to the configure script without the need
>   for it to call libtool, yet configure.in uses LT_OUTPUT to create libtool
>   early for it to be called(!)

and now I see that you upgraded glib2 to 2.20.4, and that builds fine on
the troublesome laptop, so problem vanished :-)

Cheers,

Patrick