Re: Strange circular dependency on Linux Mint 19.2 (partially solved)

[Pierre Dupond <76nemo76%gmx.ch@localhost>]

On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 20:07:15 -0400
"David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost> wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Aug 2019, at 08:52:51 +0200, 76nemo76 wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >      This was a problem due to a mess in my config.
> > Removing pkgsrc and pkg and reinstalling everything
> > from scratch solved the problem.
> >
> > However to compile libtool, one has to compile libtool-fortran.
>
> Hi,
>
> Do you really need to install libtool, or only libtool-base? In some
> contexts, only libtool-base is required.

No I don't. I have discovered this problem when trying to compile
an other software ("sylpheed" I think). Somewhere in the dependencies
the package "libtool" was specified.

I will now try to specify
    PREFER.libtool= native
in my file "mk.conf" and see if it works better.


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