Bug 94

Summary:	Libtool related packaging problem
Product:	fontconfig	Reporter:	Greg Schafer <gschafer>
Component:	library	Assignee:	Keith Packard <keithp>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high
Version:	2.2
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description Greg Schafer 2003-06-21 22:18:43 UTC

The fontconfig-2.2.1.tar.gz tarball (and most of the other tarballs available
from fontconfig.org it seems) have a small problem in that there is a mismatch
between the supplied ltmain.sh and the libtool m4 macros (contained in aclocal.m4).

The ltmain.sh is version 1.5
The libtool m4 macros appear to be from 1.4.x

This mismatch results in ugliness like this:-

(cd .libs && rm -f libfontconfig.so.1 && ln -s libfontconfig.so.1.0.4
libfontconfig.so.1)
(cd .libs && rm -f libfontconfig.so && ln -s libfontconfig.so.1.0.4
libfontconfig.so)
../libtool: line 5251: test: : integer expression expected
../libtool: line 5251: test: : integer expression expected
using piecewise archive linking...
../libtool: line 5286: test: : integer expression expected
../libtool: line 5286: test: : integer expression expected
../libtool: line 5286: test: : integer expression expected
../libtool: line 5286: test: : integer expression expected
../libtool: line 5286: test: : integer expression expected
../libtool: line 5286: test: : integer expression expected
../libtool: line 5286: test: : integer expression expected
../libtool: line 5286: test: : integer expression expected
../libtool: line 5286: test: : integer expression expected
../libtool: line 5286: test: : integer expression expected
../libtool: line 5286: test: : integer expression expected
../libtool: line 5286: test: : integer expression expected
../libtool: line 5286: test: : integer expression expected
../libtool: line 5286: test: : integer expression expected
../libtool: line 5286: test: : integer expression expected
../libtool: line 5286: test: : integer expression expected
../libtool: line 5286: test: : integer expression expected
../libtool: line 5286: test: : integer expression expected
../libtool: line 5286: test: : integer expression expected
ar cru .libs/libfontconfig.a fcatomic.o
: .libs/libfontconfig.a
ar cru .libs/libfontconfig.a fcblanks.o
: .libs/libfontconfig.a
ar cru .libs/libfontconfig.a fccache.o

I'm not sure how you managed it, but possibly the host on which the tarballs are
made has a horked autotools setup.

Something like:-

libtoolize --copy --force
aclocal

should fix it.

Thanks

Comment 1 Keith Packard 2003-06-22 22:43:22 UTC

Good call -- there was a broken version of libtoolize on the build machine. 
Future tarballs should work better, but as this mistake shouldn't cause any
actual problems, I'm not going to re-release the existing packages.

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