Bug 75318 – net-misc/neon-0.24.7 doesn't build shared libraries on ppc-macos

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo/Alt

[Description Lars T. Mikkelsen 2004-12-22 07:59:26 UTC]

The configure part of net-misc/neon-0.24.7 gives the following output:

./configure --prefix=/usr --host=powerpc-apple-darwin --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --enable-shared --without-ssl --without-zlib --with-xml2
...
checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... darwin dyld
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... no
checking whether to build shared libraries... no
...
  Install prefix:  /usr
  Compiler:        gcc
  XML Parser:      libxml 2.6.7
  SSL library:     No SSL support
  zlib support:    zlib disabled
  Build libraries: Shared=no, Static=yes

The --enable-shared flag is used, however, the shared libraries aren't build. I think this is a problem with libtool versions 1.5.2 to 1.5.6, which apparently fails to detect the shared library capability. This version of neon uses libtool 1.5.6. The previous version of neon (0.24.6) uses libtool 1.5 and builds the shared libraries correctly.

[Comment 1 Lars T. Mikkelsen 2004-12-23 16:08:31 UTC]

Created attachment 46741 [details, diff]
neon-0.24.7-darwin.patch

[Comment 2 Lars T. Mikkelsen 2004-12-23 16:09:10 UTC]

Created attachment 46742 [details, diff]
neon-0.24.7.ebuild.patch

[Comment 3 Lars T. Mikkelsen 2004-12-23 16:10:42 UTC]

I've attached two patches to fix this problem. Maybe upstream should be asked to use libtool 1.5.8+ in future releases.

[Comment 4 Kito (RETIRED) 2005-07-19 13:42:16 UTC]

inCVS. Thanks!