Re: libtool warning on redhat 7.1 native mipsel compile

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 12:08:06PM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote:

> > I don't know for sure just yet, the package takes a long time to compile.
> > The last time I compiled the package it failed to build - whether it is due
> > to the warnings or not I don't really know - maybe not.
> > 
> 
> libtool is very fragile. If it doesn't cause the failure, I won't touch
> it.

This bug may result in libraries not getting linked against certain other
libraries thus DT_NEEDED entries missing.  Frequently that's harmless but
it breaks a few packages.  I remember fixing this in a large number of
RH 7.0 packages.

Bug are rarely harmless just their consequences are subtle.

  Ralf