On 02 Nov 2014 18:28, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> > On Nov 1, 2014, at 2:54 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > in Gentoo atm, i'm hacking this by setting build_old_libs=yes in the generated 
> > libtool script before testing/installing.  but ideally it'd be possible to 
> > install `libtool` with settings based on what the system can do, not how the 
> > package is building libltdl.{a,so}.
> 
> I think it would be safer for gentoo to package the two separately then... have a
> libltdl package, which you build using --disable-static, and a separate libtool
> package (containing libtoolize, libtool and the supporting share/libtool files)
> configured with --enable-shared and --enable-static.

i ended up going this route and things look happy.  thanks for the suggestion!
-mike