On Saturday, 24 May 2008, at 16:46:32 (+0200),
Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:

> Can you be more specific, Jeff? The only needs I can imagine is that
> an RPM 5 _developer_ like you wants to build HEAD on an ancient
> system.

Surely you can't possibly think that a system not running libtool
2.2.4 (released less than 30 days ago) is "ancient?"  rpmfind.net
knows not one single Linux distribution carrying ANY version of
libtool 2.x yet.

> But regular users in legacy situations should use the official RPM 5
> tarballs and for those one doesn't need a locally installed Libtool.

How about RPM team members?  I'm *forced* to use rpm5.org tarballs
because of our bleeding edge build software requirements.

Furthermore, the current problem I'm facing (the failure of 64-bit
builds due to db-4.6 refusing to build a shared library) may very well
be due to brokenness in libtool 2.x.

Michael

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