Hello Peter, On 10/05/17 23:14, Peter Bohning wrote: > I have tried so many different options to get around this.  In fact, for most of > the cross compilation I wrote a little library to LD_PRELOAD so that libtool and > make install thinks the system root is other than it is.  But I can't use that > here and this is a nightmare. [...] > /bin/grep: /lib/libuuid.la: No such file or directory > /bin/sed: can't read /lib/libuuid.la: No such file or directory > libtool:   error: '/lib/libuuid.la' is not a valid libtool archive > Basically, no matter what I pass to the configure script, even if I patch the > configure script, I can't get it to look for libblkid's libuuid dependency in my > system root. can you provide the config.log of the project in question (best gzip it before attaching, because config.log is often quite long)? So one can see what the configure-time part of libtool thinks is going on. Regards, Thomas