Re: libtool, OS X, and GNU ranlib

[Peter O'Gorman]

On 09/10/2009 02:04 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 08:21:32PM CEST:
> > On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > IMHO, people installing to /usr need to know what they are doing.
> >
> > s/need to/should/g
>
> Yes.
>
> > > Enabling --program-prefix=g with --prefix=/usr would be quite a surprise
> > > for everyone else who is otherwise familiar with GCS, so I'd prefer not
> > > to go that way.
> >
> > Right.  I think that it is better for libtool to error out during
> > configuration if it detects that the user would be destroying the
> > Apple version.
>
> Yes.  Be sure to not error out in the case that the smart user is cross
> compiling for another system from Darwin, or intends to DESTDIR-install
> to a staging area, or similar use case that *they* might know to be
> sensible but *we* may not.  A warning is of course prudent.  But just to
> drive the point home again: this issue is not a bug in Libtool, it is a
> user error.  We do not need to fix it.


2009-10-01  Peter O'Gorman  <address@hidden>

        Warn on darwin if install will overwrite /usr/bin/libtool
        * configure.ac: Add warning.

ok?

Peter
--
Peter O'Gorman
http://pogma.com

darwarn.patch
Description: Text Data