Re: Libtool 2.2.2 to 2.2.4 fails configure in KDevelop

[Roumen Petrov]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hello,
>
> * Daedalus wrote on Tue, May 27, 2008 at 06:02:43PM CEST:
> > I think I found a bug in libtool/autotools. I'm using these softwares:
> > - Arch Linux with kernel 2.6.25
> > - KDevelop 3.5.1
> > - automake 1.10.1
> > - autoconf 2.62
> > - libtool 2.2.4
> >
> > When I try to compile a simple C or C++ project using autotools,  
> > everything works fine until
> > KDevelop starts the linking process using libtool. Linking never ends  
> > and libtool make my
> > system unresponsive because it occupies all the resources (an infinite  
> > loop I suppose).
> > The KDevelop staff closed a ticket  
> > (http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142727)about this issue
> > claiming it's an autotools problem.
> >
> > STEPS TO REPRODUCE:
> > Start a new autotools based C or C++ project in KDevelop, then try to  
> > compile/configure. The system should
> > fail during the linking process.
>
> I'm having trouble in reproducing this on my system.  Maybe it's easy
> for you to show us the bug: please try the supposedly-looping command
> manually in the project directory.  If it still hangs or loops, please
> try adding --debug to see what it does.  Post what you find, but pack
> and/or cut off voluminous output at some sensible point, please.
>
> Also, I see that the bug has been reported over a year ago.  That means,
> it likely isn't new with Libtool version 2.2, if it is indeed an
> autotools bug at all.
>
> It's a bit disappointing that the bug has not been forwarded at that
> time, if only to clarify whether it's really autotools rather than
> Kdevelop which is at fault here.
>
> Thanks for the bug report now,
> Ralf

I'm able to reproduce. The report is with old ltmain.sh (version 1.5a).
This file is from kdevelop template directory 
($KDEDIR/share/apps/kapptemplate/admin/ltmain.sh).

commands:
$ aclocal -I path_to_libtool_2.2x_macros
$ autoheader
$ automake
$ autoconf
$ ./configure
$ ./libtool --help -> hang
Note that libtoolize is not run.

But after:
$ cp path_to_libtool_2.2x_ltmain.sh .
$ ./configure
$ ./libtool --help -> OK
$ make -> SUCCESS


Roumen
P.S. : the libtool scritp that hang is attached.

libtool.gz
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