[9fans] crosstool fails on gentoo

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    powered by grep(1)    From: Uriel <uriel99@gma...>
Subject: crosstool fails on gentoo
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 21:25:07 +0200

Thanks for reminding us how boring and sad life in Plan 9 is without
the sadomasochistic joys and pleassures of crosscompiling in the holy
gnu/auto*hell land.

Specially loved the line:

>> > [ALL  ]    *** [Gentoo] sanity check failed! ***

Wonder if they had Einstein's definition of insanity in mind... the
(open and closed source) software industry certainly could make a good
textbook example... maybe they will use it for the next DSM.

uriel

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@met...> wrote:
> * Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@anc...> wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday 28 May 2008 18:52:14 Lance Spaulding wrote:
>> > I'm trying to use crosstool-ng to build an ARM toolchain but if fails
>> > with the following error message:
>> > [ALL  ]    *** [Gentoo] sanity check failed! ***
>> > [ALL  ]    *** libtool.m4 and ltmain.sh have a version mismatch! ***
>> > [ALL  ]    *** (libtool.m4 = 1.5.23b, ltmain.sh = "1.5.24 Debian 1.5.24-1") ***
>>
>> This was already reported a few days ago:
>> http://sourceware.org/ml/crossgcc/2008-05/msg00080.html
>>
>> > It looks like several people have ran into this error on gentoo but I
>> > haven't been able to find a solution anywhere (and got no replies to
>> > this question in the gentoo forums).  Anyone have a fix for this?
>>
>> As suggested by Enrico in that message: "we should recreate the autotools+libtool
>> stuff before compiling."
>
> Right, manually running autoreconf -fi && libtoolize on the already uncompressed
> tree fixed it for me.
>
> Of course this manual hack is ugly, it should be done automatically after
> decompression.
>
>
> cu
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