gEDA-dev: gschem dependent upon libtool?

[Bernd Jendrissek]

On 9/14/07, Michael Stovenour <mstovenour at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'll start with the disclaimer that I'm linking gschem under cygwin.  (shields up) 8^)
>
> While linking gschem I had the error:
>     /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: cannot find -lltdl
>
> Installing libtool, which pulled in autoconf, automake, and m4 fixed the problem.  It doen't seem to me that those tools should be required unless I want to modify the autoconf source files.  Am I doing something wrong or is the dependency on libtool normal?

Your having to install all these other autotools and m4 is, AFAICT,
due to cygwin not having broken out libltdl as a separate subpackage,
and not a fundamental issue with gschem.  On Ubuntu, I have:

$ apt-cache search ltdl
libguile-ltdl-1 - Guile's patched version of libtool's libltdl
libltdl3 - A system independent dlopen wrapper for GNU libtool
libltdl3-dev - A system independent dlopen wrapper for GNU libtool