Re: Compiling rep-gtk on Slackware 12.0

[Michal Jaegermann <michal harddata com>]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 01:42:39PM -0400, Joel J. Adamson wrote:
> I've been trying for several weeks with different variables (versions,
> etc) to compile rep-gtk.  Hopefully you can help me with this error
> message.
.....
> /usr/share/aclocal/rep.m4:7: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_REP

IIRC this warning was fixed a loooong time ago.  Which would likely
mean that you are trying to recompile an obsolete by few years
release instead of sources you have to retrieve from repositories
(currently svn, I believe).

> libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
> libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag'
> make: *** [rep-types.lo] Error 1

I recall bumping into that at some moment and failing to
comprehend mysteries of libtool.  Most likely there is a better
way to solve that but I worked around.  Here are corresponding
lines from my spec file for rep-gtk:

make %{?_smp_mflags} host_type=%{_target_platform} \
    'rep_LIBTOOL = $(repcommonexecdir)/libtool --tag=CXX'

AFAIK libtool is supposed to figure out that CXX by itself
but in some circumstances it does not.

   Michal