[Zlib-devel] zlib-1.2.6: build error on OS X 10.6.8?

[Fabian Groffen]

On 13-03-2012 21:18:54 -0700, Mark Adler wrote:
> On Mar 13, 2012, at 7:20 PM, Cosmin Truta wrote:
> > libtool -o libz.a adler32.o crc32.o deflate.o infback.o inffast.o
> > inflate.o inftrees.o trees.o zutil.o compress.o uncompr.o gzclose.o
> > gzlib.o gzread.o gzwrite.o
> > libtool: unrecognized option `-o'
> 
> Cosmin,
> 
> Beats me where this guy got his libtool from.  Does he have the Apple developer tools installed, Xcode?  What version of Xcode?
> 
> I am also running Mac OS X 10.6.8, and Xcode 4.2.  libtool certainly has the -o option to specify the output file, and in fact requires it.  See man page below.  My libtool doesn't even have a --help option, so his is completely different.

That's obviously the output of GNU libtool, so there's probably some
path trickery or worse going on.  I suspect the person wanted to be
clever, or that replacing Apple's libtool with GNU libtool fixed
building other packages.

Regards,

-- 
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level
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