[Clfs-support] libtool error on x86_64 multi

[Joe Ciccone]

mike wrote:
> hi all,
>
> can anybody give a hint about this error:
>
> dialog-1.1-20080316$ make
> /usr/bin/libtool --mode=compile gcc -m32 -g -O2 -I/usr/include/ncurses
> -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.
> -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/share/locale\" -c trace.c
> libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
> libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag'
> make: *** [trace.lo] error 1
>
> build with -m64 goes fine...?
>
Correct, Libtool wasn't designed with multilib in mind. The system wide
installation is only 64bit. I've experimented with using the multiarch
wrapper around libtool to prevent situations such as this.