Skip to content

packaging: fix libtool typo #565

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Merged
haampie merged 1 commit into from
Jun 23, 2026
+2 −2
Merged

packaging: fix libtool typo #565

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
1 commit
Select commit
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions tutorial_packaging.rst
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -611,7 +611,7 @@ We also need to explicitly specify the ``build_system`` directive, and add condi
with when("build_system=autotools"):
depends_on("automake", type="build")
depends_on("autoconf", type="build")
depends_on("libtools", type="build")
depends_on("libtool", type="build")

As we saw with :ref:`tutorial-mpileaks <info_mpileaks>`, each spec has a ``build_system`` variant that specifies the build system it uses.
In most cases that variant has a single allowed value, inherited from the corresponding base package - so, usually, you don't have to think about it.
Expand All @@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ When your package supports more than one build system though, you have to explic
In the example above it's ``cmake`` for version 0.64 and higher and ``autotools`` for version 0.63 and lower.

The ``build_system`` variant can also be used to declare other properties which are conditional on the build system being selected.
For instance, above we use the ``when`` context manager to declare that ``autotools`` builds depend on ``automake``, ``autoconf``, and ``libtools`` being installed first.
For instance, above we use the ``when`` context manager to declare that ``autotools`` builds depend on ``automake``, ``autoconf``, and ``libtool`` being installed first.

The other relevant difference, compared to previous recipes we have seen so far, is that the code prescribing the installation procedure will live in two separate classes:

Expand Down