Bluehorn’s Blog

'Observations' Category

• Dec

  30

  2009

  libtool silently skips shared libraries without -rpath

  Ouch! This is the second time I am running into this so I’ll write it up this time. I used libtool via automake for building a python module. Quite unhelpfully, libtool happens to build only the static library. It does that even though I passed the -module option, which should make it clear that a [...]

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• Nov

  14

  2009

  Weird: lenny install freezes in virtualbox

  For testing packages of RoundCube webmail that I backported from Debian unstable to stable (lenny), I tried to install lenny in a virtualbox machine. But for some reason, the installation reliably freezes at some (variable) point. The last time (I think on the 4th run), the final state shows a progress bar titled “Select and [...]

  posted in Observations, Technology by admin