Ticket #22 (closed defect: wontfix)

Opened 2 years ago

Last modified 17 months ago

Use system-installed libtool rather than shipping with one

Reported by: philipp Owned by:
Component: libusb-0.1 (unmaintained) Keywords:
Cc: Blocked By:
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Description

The libtool (ltmain.sh) that comes bundled with libusb-0.1.12 is ancient, and contains several bugs related to cross-compilation.

It would be better to not bundle libtool, since it, like any other tool, is subject to bugs, patches, releases etc.

Just make the host system require that libtool be present prior to building, and use that instead.

Change History

comment:1 Changed 17 months ago by stuge

  • Status changed from new to closed
  • Resolution set to wontfix

Closing this since the code is unmaintained. Someone who needs an updated ltmain.sh from system libtool could always run libtoolize --copy --force before configure.

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