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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: packages containing libtool
From:       Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira () kdemail ! net>
Date:       2005-02-12 20:14:45
Message-ID: 200502121814.52620.thiago.macieira () kdemail ! net
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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 
it in a KDE program.
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