From kde-devel  Sat Feb 12 20:14:45 2005
From: Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira () kdemail ! net>
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 20:14:45 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: packages containing libtool
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Keith P. Boruff wrote:
>Hey all,
>
>I noticed that many of the packages (at least the ones I've dealt with)
>contain their own libtool programs instead of using the system's
> libtool?
>
>Why is this?

Because:

1) not every system has libtool

2) our shipped libtool is modified

Any of those two reasons is enough to make shipping libtool mandatory.

You can upgrade the libtool in a package with "libtoolize". But don't do=20
it in a KDE program.
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