GNU bug report logs - #79468
libtool-2.6.0 released [alpha]

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Reported by: Ileana Dumitrescu <ileanadumitrescu95 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 15:05:01 UTC

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From: Ileana Dumitrescu <ileanadumitrescu95 <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-libtool <at> gnu.org
Cc: autotools-announce <at> gnu.org, bug-libtool <at> gnu.org
Subject: libtool-2.6.0 released [alpha]
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 18:03:59 +0300
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Libtoolers!

The Libtool Team is pleased to announce the release of libtool 2.6.0, a 
alpha release.

GNU Libtool hides the complexity of using shared libraries behind a
consistent, portable interface. GNU Libtool ships with GNU libltdl, which
hides the complexity of loading dynamic runtime libraries (modules)
behind a consistent, portable interface.

Here is the announcement on Savannah:
    https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10814

There have been 68 commits by 19 people in the 43 weeks since 2.5.4.

See the NEWS below for a brief summary.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
The following people contributed changes to this release:

  Anthony Mallet (1)
  Bruno Haible (2)
  Christian Feld (1)
  Collin Funk (1)
  Elizabeth Figura (1)
  Evgeny Grin (1)
  Frédéric Bérat (1)
  Gleb Popov (1)
  Ileana Dumitrescu (47)
  Julien ÉLIE (1)
  Karl Berry (1)
  Kirill Makurin (1)
  Manoj Gupta (1)
  Martin Storsjö (1)
  Michael Haubenwallner (2)
  Mintsuki (1)
  Mitch (1)
  Pierre Ossman (2)
  Takashi Yano (1)

Ileana
 [on behalf of the libtool maintainers]
==================================================================

Here is the GNU libtool home page:
    https://gnu.org/s/libtool/

Here are the compressed sources:
  https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.6.0.tar.gz   (2.1MB)
  https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.6.0.tar.xz   (1.1MB)

Here are the GPG detached signatures:
  https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.6.0.tar.gz.sig
  https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.6.0.tar.xz.sig

Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
  https://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

Here are the SHA1 and SHA256 checksums:

  File: libtool-2.6.0.tar.gz
  SHA1 sum:   681b41409762acb07232d7af7c289cc8a2f851c9
  SHA256 sum: 
ac9d4b8e072aa20d030d5ae039aba3b52bd7967b09e0c21f91f3e3dc1bbb8755

  File: libtool-2.6.0.tar.xz
  SHA1 sum:   dff32acab30a9262d19c3559092c2415b6a2b23e
  SHA256 sum: 
69e6d28ae880fda08e0dc080ef2e38077ea2765a0d84e1afcfcfe1e605c911ac

Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
.sig suffix) is intact.  First, be sure to download both the .sig file
and the corresponding tarball.  Then, run a command like this:

  gpg --verify libtool-2.6.0.tar.gz.sig

The signature should match the fingerprint of the following key:

  pub   rsa4096 2021-09-23 [SC]
        FA26 CA78 4BE1 8892 7F22  B99F 6570 EA01 146F 7354
  uid   Ileana Dumitrescu <ileanadumi95 <at> protonmail.com>
  uid   Ileana Dumitrescu <ileanadumitrescu95 <at> gmail.com>

If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
or that public key has expired, try the following commands to retrieve
or refresh it, and then rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.

  gpg --locate-external-key ileanadumi95 <at> protonmail.com

  gpg --recv-keys 6570EA01146F7354

  wget -q -O- 
'https://savannah.gnu.org/project/release-gpgkeys.php?group=libtool&download=1' 
| gpg --import -

As a last resort to find the key, you can try the official GNU
keyring:

  wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-keyring.gpg
  gpg --keyring gnu-keyring.gpg --verify libtool-2.6.0.tar.gz.sig

This release is based on the libtool git repository, available as

  git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/libtool.git

with commit e40fdc22cf727fb885f9df7d9affa827e3253d1c tagged as v2.6.0.

For a summary of changes and contributors, see:

  https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libtool.git;a=shortlog;h=v2.6.0

or run this command from a git-cloned libtool directory:

  git shortlog v2.5.4..v2.6.0

This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
  Autoconf 2.72e
  Automake 1.18.1
  Gnulib 2025-07-29 f0773a994eb75ceeeb44e39145c842044357a1ad

NEWS

* Noteworthy changes in release 2.6.0 (2025-09-18) [alpha]

** New features:

  - Add a new tool, libtool-next-version, to guide users through updating
    library versions.

  - Add tagging for Objective-C and Objective-C++, OBJC and OBJCXX.

  - Increase 5 digit limit on revision value for libraries to 19 digits,
    which is referencing Unix epoch time in nanoseconds.

  - Add configuration options to choose whether to use '-nostdlib' to let
    the compiler frontend decide what standard libraries to link when
    building C++ shared libraries and modules, --enable-cxx-stdlib and
    --disable-cxx-stdlib.

  - Allow statically linking GCC and Clang compiler support libraries
    into shared libraries.

  - Add linking clang_rt static archives compiler internal libraries by
    their absolute path.

  - Set 'mklink' as the symlinking tool for MSVC.

  - Pass '--target' architecture flag for Clang.

  - Support MSYS and MSYS2 file path conversions.

** Bug fixes:

  - Fix wrongly deduplicated compiler dependencies on linux.

  - Fix NetBSD postdeps for shared libraries.

  - Fix statically linking dependencies into shared C++ libraries when
    utilizing clang builtins or g++ options like, -static-libstdc++, by
    using a new configuration option, --enable-cxx-stdlib.

  - Ensure *-linux-mlibc host matches to mlibc userland rather than
    matching to GNU/Linux and similar userlands.

  - Fix hang with cmd.exe in MSYS.

  - For MSVC, fix mishandling compiler flags, symlinking, cl.exe '.exp'
    extension collision, symbol names, and numerous testsuite bugs.

  - Fix undeclared reference to access on Windows in libltdl.

  - Fix flang -Wl flags on FreeBSD.

  - Fix reordering '--as-needed' flag.

  - Fix libltdl early failures for multi-arch.

** Changes in supported systems or compilers:

  - Support additional Intel OneAPI compilers, 'icx', 'icpx', and 'ifx'.

  - Support ML64 (Microsoft Macro Assembler).


Enjoy!

-- 
Ileana Dumitrescu

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From: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>
To: bug-libtool <at> gnu.org
Subject: [GNU Libtool 2.6.0] testsuite: 65 96 185 failed
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2025 16:12:04 +0200
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On Ubuntu 24.04/x86_64 I get these test failures:

 65: passing OBJCXX flags through libtool            FAILED (flags.at:21)
 96: OBJCXX inferred tag                             FAILED (infer-tag.at:116)
185: Run tests with low max_cmd_len                  FAILED (cmdline_wrap.at:45)

Explanation: In $PATH I have binaries from GCC 15.2.0, that I built myself,
with configure option
  --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,lto,jit,fortran,go,d,m2
i.e. with c++ but without obj-c++.

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From: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>
To: bug-libtool <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: libtool-2.6.0 released [alpha]
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 11:08:44 +0200
>    - Support ML64 (Microsoft Macro Assembler).

Thanks for this feature. I'm using it in GNU libffcall now [1].

Bruno

[1] https://gitweb.git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libffcall.git;a=commitdiff;h=44b8f1b1cf3cb06dc0eb83027a7da34ecb5cb3ef







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From: Frederic Berat <fberat <at> redhat.com>
To: Ileana Dumitrescu <ileanadumitrescu95 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: autotools-announce <at> gnu.org, 79468 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#79468: libtool-2.6.0 released [alpha]
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 11:41:52 +0200
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On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM Ileana Dumitrescu <
ileanadumitrescu95 <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> Libtoolers!
>
> The Libtool Team is pleased to announce the release of libtool 2.6.0, a
> alpha release.
>
> GNU Libtool hides the complexity of using shared libraries behind a
> consistent, portable interface. GNU Libtool ships with GNU libltdl, which
> hides the complexity of loading dynamic runtime libraries (modules)
> behind a consistent, portable interface.
>
> Here is the announcement on Savannah:
>      https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10814
>
> There have been 68 commits by 19 people in the 43 weeks since 2.5.4.
>

Hello,

I don't know why it didn't get caught earlier, but I got the
following error while testing 2.6.0 in Fedora:

disable-static --disable-sctp
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --disable-dependency-tracking
./configure: line 4399: syntax error near unexpected token `)'
./configure: line 4399: `])])'
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.oz58QM (%build)


When looking at the configure script, the error is here:



# LT_PROG_OBJC
# -----------
])])

# LT_PROG_OBJCXX
# -----------
])])

# LT_PROG_GCJ
# -----------


Which comes from:


# LT_PROG_OBJC
# -----------
AC_DEFUN([LT_PROG_OBJC],
[AC_CHECK_TOOL(OBJC, gcc,)
  AC_CHECK_TOOL(GNUSTEP_CONFIG, gnustep-config,)
  if test Xgnustep-config = X"$GNUSTEP_CONFIG"; then
    test set = "${OBJCFLAGS+set}" || OBJCFLAGS="`gnustep-config
--objc-flags`"
  fi
  AC_SUBST(OBJCFLAGS)])])[]dnl
])

# LT_PROG_OBJCXX
# -----------
AC_DEFUN([LT_PROG_OBJCXX],
[AC_CHECK_TOOL(OBJCXX, g++,)
  AC_CHECK_TOOL(GNUSTEP_CONFIG, gnustep-config,)
  if test Xgnustep-config = X"$GNUSTEP_CONFIG"; then
    test set = "${OBJCXXFLAGS+set}" || OBJCXXFLAGS="`gnustep-config
--objc-flags`"
  fi
  AC_SUBST(OBJCXXFLAGS)])])[]dnl
])

Looking at the code, it looks like a copy'n'paste error from the block
after it:

# LT_PROG_GCJ
# -----------
AC_DEFUN([LT_PROG_GCJ],
[m4_ifdef([AC_PROG_GCJ], [AC_PROG_GCJ],
  [m4_ifdef([A][M_PROG_GCJ], [A][M_PROG_GCJ],
    [AC_CHECK_TOOL(GCJ, gcj,)
      test set = "${GCJFLAGS+set}" || GCJFLAGS="-g -O2"
      AC_SUBST(GCJFLAGS)])])[]dnl
])

While the "])[]dnl" part is necessary in "LT_PROG_GCJ" due to the m4_ifdef
calls, it is superfluous for "LT_PROG_OBJCXX" and "LT_PROG_OBJC"

May you have a look and fix that ?

For now that's the most obvious problem I found, I'm double checking other
errors.


>
> See the NEWS below for a brief summary.
>
> Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
> The following people contributed changes to this release:
>
>    Anthony Mallet (1)
>    Bruno Haible (2)
>    Christian Feld (1)
>    Collin Funk (1)
>    Elizabeth Figura (1)
>    Evgeny Grin (1)
>    Frédéric Bérat (1)
>    Gleb Popov (1)
>    Ileana Dumitrescu (47)
>    Julien ÉLIE (1)
>    Karl Berry (1)
>    Kirill Makurin (1)
>    Manoj Gupta (1)
>    Martin Storsjö (1)
>    Michael Haubenwallner (2)
>    Mintsuki (1)
>    Mitch (1)
>    Pierre Ossman (2)
>    Takashi Yano (1)
>
> Ileana
>   [on behalf of the libtool maintainers]
> ==================================================================
>
> Here is the GNU libtool home page:
>      https://gnu.org/s/libtool/
>
> Here are the compressed sources:
>    https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.6.0.tar.gz   (2.1MB)
>    https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.6.0.tar.xz   (1.1MB)
>
> Here are the GPG detached signatures:
>    https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.6.0.tar.gz.sig
>    https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.6.0.tar.xz.sig
>
> Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
>    https://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
>
> Here are the SHA1 and SHA256 checksums:
>
>    File: libtool-2.6.0.tar.gz
>    SHA1 sum:   681b41409762acb07232d7af7c289cc8a2f851c9
>    SHA256 sum:
> ac9d4b8e072aa20d030d5ae039aba3b52bd7967b09e0c21f91f3e3dc1bbb8755
>
>    File: libtool-2.6.0.tar.xz
>    SHA1 sum:   dff32acab30a9262d19c3559092c2415b6a2b23e
>    SHA256 sum:
> 69e6d28ae880fda08e0dc080ef2e38077ea2765a0d84e1afcfcfe1e605c911ac
>
> Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
> .sig suffix) is intact.  First, be sure to download both the .sig file
> and the corresponding tarball.  Then, run a command like this:
>
>    gpg --verify libtool-2.6.0.tar.gz.sig
>
> The signature should match the fingerprint of the following key:
>
>    pub   rsa4096 2021-09-23 [SC]
>          FA26 CA78 4BE1 8892 7F22  B99F 6570 EA01 146F 7354
>    uid   Ileana Dumitrescu <ileanadumi95 <at> protonmail.com>
>    uid   Ileana Dumitrescu <ileanadumitrescu95 <at> gmail.com>
>
> If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
> or that public key has expired, try the following commands to retrieve
> or refresh it, and then rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
>
>    gpg --locate-external-key ileanadumi95 <at> protonmail.com
>
>    gpg --recv-keys 6570EA01146F7354
>
>    wget -q -O-
> '
> https://savannah.gnu.org/project/release-gpgkeys.php?group=libtool&download=1'
>
> | gpg --import -
>
> As a last resort to find the key, you can try the official GNU
> keyring:
>
>    wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-keyring.gpg
>    gpg --keyring gnu-keyring.gpg --verify libtool-2.6.0.tar.gz.sig
>
> This release is based on the libtool git repository, available as
>
>    git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/libtool.git
>
> with commit e40fdc22cf727fb885f9df7d9affa827e3253d1c tagged as v2.6.0.
>
> For a summary of changes and contributors, see:
>
>    https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libtool.git;a=shortlog;h=v2.6.0
>
> or run this command from a git-cloned libtool directory:
>
>    git shortlog v2.5.4..v2.6.0
>
> This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
>    Autoconf 2.72e
>    Automake 1.18.1
>    Gnulib 2025-07-29 f0773a994eb75ceeeb44e39145c842044357a1ad
>
> NEWS
>
> * Noteworthy changes in release 2.6.0 (2025-09-18) [alpha]
>
> ** New features:
>
>    - Add a new tool, libtool-next-version, to guide users through updating
>      library versions.
>
>    - Add tagging for Objective-C and Objective-C++, OBJC and OBJCXX.
>
>    - Increase 5 digit limit on revision value for libraries to 19 digits,
>      which is referencing Unix epoch time in nanoseconds.
>
>    - Add configuration options to choose whether to use '-nostdlib' to let
>      the compiler frontend decide what standard libraries to link when
>      building C++ shared libraries and modules, --enable-cxx-stdlib and
>      --disable-cxx-stdlib.
>
>    - Allow statically linking GCC and Clang compiler support libraries
>      into shared libraries.
>
>    - Add linking clang_rt static archives compiler internal libraries by
>      their absolute path.
>
>    - Set 'mklink' as the symlinking tool for MSVC.
>
>    - Pass '--target' architecture flag for Clang.
>
>    - Support MSYS and MSYS2 file path conversions.
>
> ** Bug fixes:
>
>    - Fix wrongly deduplicated compiler dependencies on linux.
>
>    - Fix NetBSD postdeps for shared libraries.
>
>    - Fix statically linking dependencies into shared C++ libraries when
>      utilizing clang builtins or g++ options like, -static-libstdc++, by
>      using a new configuration option, --enable-cxx-stdlib.
>
>    - Ensure *-linux-mlibc host matches to mlibc userland rather than
>      matching to GNU/Linux and similar userlands.
>
>    - Fix hang with cmd.exe in MSYS.
>
>    - For MSVC, fix mishandling compiler flags, symlinking, cl.exe '.exp'
>      extension collision, symbol names, and numerous testsuite bugs.
>
>    - Fix undeclared reference to access on Windows in libltdl.
>
>    - Fix flang -Wl flags on FreeBSD.
>
>    - Fix reordering '--as-needed' flag.
>
>    - Fix libltdl early failures for multi-arch.
>
> ** Changes in supported systems or compilers:
>
>    - Support additional Intel OneAPI compilers, 'icx', 'icpx', and 'ifx'.
>
>    - Support ML64 (Microsoft Macro Assembler).
>
>
> Enjoy!
>
> --
> Ileana Dumitrescu
>
> GPG Public Key: FA26 CA78 4BE1 8892 7F22 B99F 6570 EA01 146F 7354
>
>
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From: Ileana Dumitrescu <ileanadumitrescu95 <at> gmail.com>
To: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>, 79468 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#79468: [GNU Libtool 2.6.0] testsuite: 65 96 185 failed
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2025 22:05:56 +0300
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On 19/09/2025 17:12, Bruno Haible via bug-libtool via Bug reports for 
the GNU libtool shared library maintenance tool wrote:
> On Ubuntu 24.04/x86_64 I get these test failures:
> 
>   65: passing OBJCXX flags through libtool            FAILED (flags.at:21)
>   96: OBJCXX inferred tag                             FAILED (infer-tag.at:116)
> 185: Run tests with low max_cmd_len                  FAILED (cmdline_wrap.at:45)
> 
> Explanation: In $PATH I have binaries from GCC 15.2.0, that I built myself,
> with configure option
>    --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,lto,jit,fortran,go,d,m2
> i.e. with c++ but without obj-c++.

Bruno, thank you for testing the alpha release!

This issue was easy to reproduce, and the fix is in the development
branch now [1].

[1] 
https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtool.git/commit/?h=development&id=bbcb9b23c65ec52f4c39858ddd8d50c2818d69bd

-- 
Ileana Dumitrescu

GPG Public Key: FA26 CA78 4BE1 8892 7F22 B99F 6570 EA01 146F 7354

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From: Ileana Dumitrescu <ileanadumitrescu95 <at> gmail.com>
To: Frederic Berat <fberat <at> redhat.com>
Cc: 79468 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#79468: libtool-2.6.0 released [alpha]
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2025 22:12:14 +0300
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On 24/09/2025 12:41, Frederic Berat wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM Ileana Dumitrescu 
> <ileanadumitrescu95 <at> gmail.com <mailto:ileanadumitrescu95 <at> gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Libtoolers!
> 
>     The Libtool Team is pleased to announce the release of libtool 2.6.0, a
>     alpha release.
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I don't know why it didn't get caught earlier, but I got the 
> following error while testing 2.6.0 in Fedora:
> 
> disable-static --disable-sctp
> configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --disable-dependency-tracking
> ./configure: line 4399: syntax error near unexpected token `)'
> ./configure: line 4399: `])])'
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.oz58QM (%build)

Thank you for testing in Fedora!

> May you have a look and fix that ?

I am also surprised this did not cause errors in other GNU/Linux
systems, but it has been fixed in the development branch on Savannah now
along with another Objective C++ bug [1].

> For now that's the most obvious problem I found, I'm double checking 
> other errors.

I hope for no more bugs, but I happy to fix any more you find :)

[1] 
https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtool.git/commit/?h=development&id=bbcb9b23c65ec52f4c39858ddd8d50c2818d69bd

-- 
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GPG Public Key: FA26 CA78 4BE1 8892 7F22 B99F 6570 EA01 146F 7354

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From: Ileana Dumitrescu <ileanadumitrescu95 <at> gmail.com>
To: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>, 79468 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#79468: libtool-2.6.0 released [alpha]
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2025 22:14:56 +0300
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On 23/09/2025 12:08, Bruno Haible via bug-libtool via Bug reports for 
the GNU libtool shared library maintenance tool wrote:
>>     - Support ML64 (Microsoft Macro Assembler).
> 
> Thanks for this feature. I'm using it in GNU libffcall now [1].
> 
> Bruno
> 
> [1] https://gitweb.git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libffcall.git;a=commitdiff;h=44b8f1b1cf3cb06dc0eb83027a7da34ecb5cb3ef

I am happy it is already being used. Hopefully you do not find bugs in 
this feature :)

Thank you again for testing!

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bug#79468; Package libtool. (Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:06:01 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Message #26 received at 79468 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Frederic Berat <fberat <at> redhat.com>
To: Ileana Dumitrescu <ileanadumitrescu95 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 79468 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#79468: libtool-2.6.0 released [alpha]
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:04:52 +0200
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On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 9:12 PM Ileana Dumitrescu <
ileanadumitrescu95 <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> On 24/09/2025 12:41, Frederic Berat wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM Ileana Dumitrescu
> > <ileanadumitrescu95 <at> gmail.com <mailto:ileanadumitrescu95 <at> gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> >
> >     Libtoolers!
> >
> >     The Libtool Team is pleased to announce the release of libtool
> 2.6.0, a
> >     alpha release.
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I don't know why it didn't get caught earlier, but I got the
> > following error while testing 2.6.0 in Fedora:
> >
> > disable-static --disable-sctp
> > configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --disable-dependency-tracking
> > ./configure: line 4399: syntax error near unexpected token `)'
> > ./configure: line 4399: `])])'
> > error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.oz58QM (%build)
>
> Thank you for testing in Fedora!
>
> > May you have a look and fix that ?
>
> I am also surprised this did not cause errors in other GNU/Linux
> systems, but it has been fixed in the development branch on Savannah now
> along with another Objective C++ bug [1].
>
> > For now that's the most obvious problem I found, I'm double checking
> > other errors.
>
> I hope for no more bugs, but I happy to fix any more you find :)
>

So far nothing obvious, the failures I've found seem to be problems in the
corresponding packages.

One because it modifies libtool (through sed) and the modifications aren't
compatible anymore (and likely not needed anyway).
The other has "-Werror=maybe-uninitialized" errors that seem to always have
been there but weren't uncovered so far.


>
> [1]
>
> https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtool.git/commit/?h=development&id=bbcb9b23c65ec52f4c39858ddd8d50c2818d69bd
>
>
Hmm, looks like the fix isn't complete:

+ ./configure --build=x86_64-redhat-linux --host=x86_64-redhat-linux
--program-prefix= --disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=/usr
--exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/bin --sysconfdir=/etc
--datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib64
--libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --runstatedir=/run
--sharedstatedir=/var/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info
--includedir=/usr/include/apr-1
--with-installbuilddir=/usr/lib64/apr-1/build --with-devrandom=/dev/urandom
--disable-static --disable-sctp
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --disable-dependency-tracking
./configure: line 4403: syntax error near unexpected token `)'
./configure: line 4403: `])'
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.HQAsTL (%build)

Both `])` needed to be removed, as the closure is done one line later:

I could properly rebuild `apr` with the following (on top of the
development branch):

git diff m4/libtool.m4
diff --git a/m4/libtool.m4 b/m4/libtool.m4
index b758ae5a60ef4454..2f5d0e3ca2c706cd 100644
--- a/m4/libtool.m4
+++ b/m4/libtool.m4
@@ -8671,7 +8671,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([LT_PROG_OBJC],
   if test Xgnustep-config = X"$GNUSTEP_CONFIG"; then
     test set = "${OBJCFLAGS+set}" || OBJCFLAGS="`gnustep-config
--objc-flags`"
   fi
-  AC_SUBST(OBJCFLAGS)])[]dnl
+  AC_SUBST(OBJCFLAGS)[]dnl
 ])

 # LT_PROG_OBJCXX
@@ -8682,7 +8682,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([LT_PROG_OBJCXX],
   if test Xgnustep-config = X"$GNUSTEP_CONFIG"; then
     test set = "${OBJCXXFLAGS+set}" || OBJCXXFLAGS="`gnustep-config
--objc-flags`"
   fi
-  AC_SUBST(OBJCXXFLAGS)])[]dnl
+  AC_SUBST(OBJCXXFLAGS)[]dnl
 ])

 # LT_PROG_GCJ




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Information forwarded to bug-libtool <at> gnu.org:
bug#79468; Package libtool. (Tue, 30 Sep 2025 17:29:01 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Message #29 received at 79468 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ileana Dumitrescu <ileanadumitrescu95 <at> gmail.com>
To: Frederic Berat <fberat <at> redhat.com>
Cc: 79468 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#79468: libtool-2.6.0 released [alpha]
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2025 20:27:53 +0300
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On 30/09/2025 17:04, Frederic Berat wrote:
> Hmm, looks like the fix isn't complete:
> 
> + ./configure --build=x86_64-redhat-linux --host=x86_64-redhat-linux -- 
> program-prefix= --disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=/usr --exec- 
> prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/bin --sysconfdir=/etc -- 
> datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib64 -- 
> libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --runstatedir=/run -- 
> sharedstatedir=/var/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/ 
> info --includedir=/usr/include/apr-1 --with-installbuilddir=/usr/lib64/ 
> apr-1/build --with-devrandom=/dev/urandom --disable-static --disable-sctp
> configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --disable-dependency-tracking
> ./configure: line 4403: syntax error near unexpected token `)'
> ./configure: line 4403: `])'
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.HQAsTL (%build)
> 
> Both `])` needed to be removed, as the closure is done one line later:

Thank you for testing again. I should have looked at it more before
pushing my "fix". I have committed your changes to the development
branch.

https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtool.git/commit/?h=development&id=53f8ca1d4872dbee1e5a6d0f344df66f0f64f4f9

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