From: Warren Young Date: June 15 2009 10:50pm Subject: Re: Problems trying to build from Trunk List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/plusplus/8632 Message-Id: <4A36D025.7090103@etr-usa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Adrian Cornish wrote: >> What kind of system is this? I may try to replicate it in a VM. > > It a SuSe10.3 I was able to duplicate this symptom on Ubuntu 9.04. It's fixed in svn now. The problem was an old libtool directive in configure.ac which should have been removed when we moved to Bakefile, years ago. (Why was it not removed? Because it's called AC_DISABLE_STATIC, which implies it affects autoconf, not libtool, whose macros should all begin with LT_. News flash: autotools has hair *and* warts. Film at 11.)