6.25. Installing Libtool-1.4

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6.25.1. Installation of Libtool

Install Libtool by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install

6.25.2. Contents

The Libtool package contains the libtool and libtoolize programs. It also contains the ltdl library.

6.25.3. Description

6.25.3.1. libtool

Libtool provides generalized library-building support services.

6.25.3.2. libtoolize

libtoolize provides a standard way to add libtool support to a package.

6.25.3.3. ltdl library

Libtool provides a small library, called `libltdl', that aims at hiding the various difficulties of dlopening libraries from programmers.

6.25.4. Dependencies

Libtool-1.4 needs the following to be installed:


sh from the bash package

ar from the binutils package
as from the binutils package
ld from the binutils package

cmp from the diffutils package

chmod from the fileutils package
cp from the fileutils package
ln from the fileutils package
ls from the fileutils package
mkdir from the fileutils package
mv from the fileutils package
rm from the fileutils package
rmdir from the fileutils package

cc from the gcc package

egrep from the grep package
grep from the grep package

make from the make package

sed from the sed package

basename from the sh-utils package
expr from the sh-utils package
sleep from the sh-utils package
uname from the sh-utils package

cat from the textutils package
tr from the textutils package