Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] problems building on mac os x

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 20:52:53 -0800
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 04:29:42PM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> It looks as if "libtoolize --copy --force" is what's overwriting them.
> I guess it considers "config.guess" and "config.sub" to be "libtool
> files", so that "--force" cheerfully overwrites them.
> 
> It would be even more depressing if they *were*, in effect, "libtool
> files", so that a given version of libtool works only with that
> version's "config.guess" and "config.sub" files.

Unless that's known to be the case, I'd be inclined to remove the
"--force" from the "libtoolize" line in "autogen.sh".  We *don't* use
"--force" in "automake --add-missing".