Re: Fwd: (Help Me!) Errors while Compiling NX Src on FREEBSD machine (5.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #0:)

[Suresh Naidu]

>| checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
> 
>| *** Warning: the command libtool uses to detect shared libraries,
>| *** /usr/bin/file, produces output that libtool cannot recognize.
>| *** The result is that libtool may fail to recognize shared libraries
>| *** as such.  This will affect the creation of libtool libraries that
>| *** depend on shared libraries, but programs linked with such libtool
>| *** libraries will work regardless of this problem.  Nevertheless, you
>| *** may want to report the problem to your system manager and/or to
>| *** address@hidden

>Now I have set out to kill this bug.  But I need help (as I have no
>access to a system exposing it).  Excuses for not looking earlier
>(I have not even been involved in Libtool development that long),
>but I have asked for this repeatedly and never gotten any feedback.


>Please show output of these commands, replace $CC with the compiler
>used to expose the problem, and $LIBTOOL to a `libtool' script generated
>by the package you were configuring at that time:

>$ uname -r
5.2.1-RELEASE

>$ /usr/bin/file `echo /usr/lib/libc.so.*`
/usr/lib/libc.so.*: can't stat `/usr/lib/libc.so.*' (No such file or directory).

>$ grep deplibs_check_method= libtool

>$ echo __ELF__ | $CC -E - | grep __ELF__ > /dev/null

$ echo __ELF__ |  gcc -E - | grep __ELF__ 
nothing printed but $? is 1


>$ $LIBTOOL --version

$./libtool --version
ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.3.3 (1.385.2.181 1999/07/02 15:49:11)


>If you are able to go the effort, please take a recent Libtool and show
>if the problem persists with it.  Report all your findings to this list.

>Thank you very much.