i'm using sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r3. any time i run autogen.sh (thus rerunning my system's 'libtoolize') on a software package that has a shared library as its target, it generates some bad scripts which result in the following error (right after libtool successfully links the shared lib): grep -E -e "^[^_].*" ".libs/libxfcegui4.exp" > ".libs/libxfcegui4.expT" mv -f ".libs/libxfcegui4.expT" ".libs/libxfcegui4.exp" gcc "{ global:" > .libs/libxfcegui4.ver gcc: { global:: No such file or directory gcc: no input files make[2]: *** [libxfcegui4.la] Error 1 using the fedora-patched libtool 1.5 at http://www.xfce.org/archive/tools/libtool-1.5-8-fedora.tar.gz (installed in my homedir), everything works properly. it's clear that the problem is the third line of the error output i pasted - libtool is for some reason running 'gcc' when it should be running 'echo'. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install libtool-1.5.2-r3 2. run libtoolize on a source tree using libtool to generate shared libs 3. attempt to 'make' the project Actual Results: the compilation process failed with the error above. Expected Results: the compilation should have succeeded (obviously). Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040207-r0, 2.6.2-mm1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.2-mm1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 ccache version 2.2 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r2 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe -fforce-addr -falign-functions=4 -ffast-math" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/tomcat /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe -fforce-addr -falign-functions=4 -ffast-math" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://www.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://mirror.clarkson.edu/pub/distributions/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aalib acpi4linux alsa apache2 apm avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups curl directfb dvd dvdr encode esd fam fbcon ffmpeg flash foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imlib innodb java joystick jpeg kerberos krb4 ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls nvidia oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl pic png python qt quicktime readline samba sasl sdl slang spell ssl stencil-buffer svga tcltk tcpd tetex truetype ungif usb v4l2 x86 xfs xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"
I'm having this same problem, with libtool 1.4.3-r3. There is some information about a workaround in likely-dupe bug 43244.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 43244 ***
