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

[Cosmin Truta]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Fabian Groffen <grobian at gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 13-03-2012 21:18:54 -0700, Mark Adler wrote:
>> Beats me where this guy got his libtool from.  Does he have the Apple developer tools installed, Xcode?  What version of Xcode?

I don't have a Mac anymore, so I can't test this. However, one thing
that I remember from using MacPorts is that it replaces the
system-provided tools with whatever comes out of their repository. (I
mean, not really replace, but just put the MacPorts directory /opt/bin
first in PATH, so they get picked up first.)

I remember GNU Make replacing Apple's make, and Python replacing
Apple's Python. It might be possible the same thing happened with
libtool.

> 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.

Yep, that supports my theory.

I will ask the user whether he uses libtool from MacPorts or perhaps Fink.

Sincerely,
Cosmin