Re: [bug-gettext] Bug#754146: gettext: fix FTBFS on ppc64el with autoreconf or libtool patch (provided) (fwd)

[Daiki Ueno]

Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <address@hidden> writes:

> Just clarifying for a broader audience:

Thanks for the clarification.

> On Debian, using autoreconf required a change to one upstream file [1]
> because the libtool macros are shipped with 'link_all_libdeps=no'.
>
> Therefore that patch [2] just added in *_LDADD the missing libdep listed
> in *_DEPENDENCIES (libgettextlib.la), plus libunistring in one case.
>
> It's reasonable for upstream not to consider it, since it is required
> due to a change downstream.
>
>> So: Would be possible to release a gettext version using latest
>> libtool so that I do not need to add any special hack in the Debian
>> package? (Or maybe this is not even fixed in libtool yet?)
>
> This was fixed in libtool (as of [3]), and incorporated in v2.4.2.418.

So, yes, probably we should skip the Makefile.am changes (in upstream).

For the patch to libtool.m4, I'd also like to wait until a new libtool
stable release, but if it takes long time and the change is trivial
enough, I think it could be backported (like [1]).

Footnotes: 
[1]  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gettext.git/commit/?id=73acab39