Details on this package are located in Section 10.22.2, “Contents of Libtool.”
The Libtool package contains the GNU generic library support script. It wraps the complexity of using shared libraries in a consistent, portable interface.
Prepare Libtool for compilation:
CC="gcc ${BUILD32}" ./configure --prefix=/usr
Compile the package:
make
To test the results, issue: make LDEMULATION=elf32ppc check.
The meaning of the override on make check:
Libtool tends to do the wrong thing when building for multilib, at least on the non-default size(s) of architecture. These causes of these errors are not well understood and they can appear, or disappear, as a result of apparently innocuous other changes in the build. In this version of the book, one of the tests (pdemo-make) fails to link because it tries to link the 32-bit objects against 64-bit system libraries. This option enables the test to succeed without impacting the other tests (compare the common alternative fixes of LD="gcc ${BUILD32}" which causes far fewer tests to be executed, and configuring with LDFLAGS='-L/lib -L/usr/lib' which in this case causes other tests to fail.)
Install the package:
make install
Details on this package are located in Section 10.22.2, “Contents of Libtool.”