Debian Bug report logs - #489625
libapr1-dev: please don't ship your own copy of libtool

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From: Raphael Geissert <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: libapr1-dev: please don't ship your own copy of libtool

Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 20:58:27 -0500

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Package: libapr1-dev
Version: 1.2.12-4

While checking the results of the archive wide checkbashisms check I've found 
a copy of libtool at /usr/share/apr-1.0/build/libtool.

Please don't ship your own copy and depend on libtool and make it a symlink if 
really needed.

Thanks.

Regards,
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Message #12 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Stefan Fritsch <[email protected]>

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Subject: libapr1-dev: please don't ship your own copy of libtool

Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 18:56:36 +0100

The libtool shipped with the apr package has no tagged configurations 
and works without --tag parameter. The libtool from the libtool 
package requires --tag, though. Specifying the correct --tag 
everywhere would be a larger enterprise. It would have to include all 
methods to build apache modules written in both C and C++, and all 
other users of apr-config/apu-config. And (at least in principle) apr 
supports different libtools that don't support --tag, though I don't 
know if that support is still used.

In any case, I don't think it makes sense to change this in Debian.

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From: Stefan Fritsch <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#489625: libapr1-dev: please don't ship your own copy of libtool

Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 19:02:34 +0100

Related bug reports:

 https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47691
 http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=15823

Message #22 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sven Joachim <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: more fun with apr's libtool copy

Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 08:54:46 +0200

Just to let you know, apr's libtool copy sets some variables for
programs which are no longer valid on i386, e.g.
RANLIB="i486-linux-gnu-ranlib".  This makes subversion FTBFS[1].

Cheers,
       Sven
      

1. https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=subversion&arch=i386&ver=1.8.10-1%2Bb1&stamp=1408144688

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From: Stefan Fritsch <[email protected]>

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Cc: [email protected]

Subject: libapr1-dev: please don't ship your own copy of libtool

Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 10:35:43 +0200

forwarded 489625 https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62640
thanks

https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62640 has some infos and
a patch

Message #43 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Stefan Fritsch <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: Maybe fixable with apr 1.7

Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2020 11:20:44 +0200

According to the changelog, apr 1.7 adds all the --tag parameters to the
libtool invocations. Maybe this allows this to be fixed. But I won't
change that in the -1 upload because I want the python builddep fix to
make it to testing without problems.

Message #48 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Stefan Fritsch <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Cc: [email protected]

Subject: Re: Maybe fixable with apr 1.7

Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2020 12:13:38 +0100

notforwarded 489625
thanks

Am 29.08.20 um 11:20 schrieb Stefan Fritsch:
> According to the changelog, apr 1.7 adds all the --tag parameters to the
> libtool invocations. Maybe this allows this to be fixed. 

This is not enough. There are many projects that use apr that don't pass 
the --tag parameter to libtool. Those would have to be changed, too. 
Examples for such projects are apr-util and Apache httpd. And it is not 
enough to patch those projects in Debian, they have to be fixed upstream 
beacaue we want for example the upstream Apache httpd to be buildable 
with Debian's libapr.

So, unless the debian libtool fixes #758317 and works without --tag, 
this bug won't be fixed.

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