libtool woes

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Sun Feb 3 08:01:59 PST 2008


On Feb 3, 2008, at 03:32, Anders F Björklund wrote:

> paul beard wrote:
>
>> Looks like I have some problem with libtool.
>> libIDL and Apache2 both fail to upgrade.
> ...
>> libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
>> libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag'
>
> This problem is since the change to "/usr/bin/gcc-4.0" for CC.
> Switching compiler back to "gcc" (or "gcc-4.0") makes it work.
>
> Something like: port build configure.cc=gcc configure.cxx=g++

Can you explain more? Isn't "gcc" the same as "/usr/bin/gcc" which is  
a symlink to "/usr/bin/gcc-4.0"? Also, I do not experience this  
problem with apache2; why would some people see it and not others?


> We also have some ports that break when using ccache(*), those
> can be made to work by using configure.ccache=no when building.
>
> * http://ccache.samba.org/



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