FBSD 8.1 Libtool Upgrade.

Tijl Coosemans tijl at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jan 30 11:23:59 UTC 2015


On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 16:46:21 -0800 "Keith" <kwoody at citywest.ca> wrote:
> Was going to install NRPE, nagios tool and got this error:
> 
> ===>   Found libtool-2.2.6b, but you need to upgrade to libtool>=2.4
> 
> Now this is a production machine running FBSD 8.1 and:
> 
> Dovecot 2.2.9
> Postfix 2.7.1
> 
> I am a little concerned about updating a library like this, but from what
> I have read here:
> 
> http://www.freshports.org/devel/libtool
> 
> Neither of these programs use libtool to either build or are needed to run.
> 
> Those are the only programs that run on this machine except for the usual
> out of the box type stuff.
> 
> Would it be safe to upgrade libtool?

Libtool is not a library.  It's a build tool to build libraries.  So
it's a probably safe.


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