Re: error compiling popt in ORBit

["William F. Maton" <wmaton ryouko dgim crc ca>]

On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Erik Walthinsen wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Elliot Lee wrote:
> 
> > > gcc -Wall -g -O2 -o test1 -static test1.o .libs/libpopt.al
> > > .libs/libpopt.al: could not read symbols: Archive has no index; run ranlib
> > Get libtool 1.3.3
> 
> Note the extension on libpopt.  It's shown in the error output as .al, not
> .la.  This is either a transcription error (unlikely, selections anyone?)
> or something wrong with the Makefile.am.  I just updated ORBit on my end
> and don't see any instances of .al, so something else is wierd.

Note that this is also from CVS (that means this is very fresh).

And to clarify, the above was copied and pasted into my mailer.

tx.,

wfms