Re: Should USE_LIBTOOL=yes create a dependency on libtool-base?

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>]

> I would assume so, and the pkgsrc guide seems to indicate that it does.

BUILD_DEPENDS (not run-time).

> I'm creating a package for rsyslogd on Ubuntu and url2pkg (which is a 
> very handy program) added USE_LIBTOOL=yes to the Makefile for me, but 
> when I typed bmake, all I ended up with was a shell error message that 
> .../bin/libtool was not found. I installed libtool-base and everything 
> built just fine.

I am guessing you edited the makefile after you have already did a bmake 
earlier, so the build dependency steps were already done. Maybe do a 
"bmake clean" first.

> I'm afraid that I'm a bit focussed on rsyslogd and actually using it, so 
> I don't have time to dig into things. If someone says that 
> USE_LIBTOOL=yes should create a dependency on libtool-base, then that 
> may encourage me to use some of my Copious Free Time(tm) to look for a 
> reason why it went wrong.