>> A patch omitting lines '^Driving:'  is attached. But do we need to >> expand _LT_SYS_HIDDEN_LIBDEPS for FC at all? Thank you for your bug report. I have applied your patch to the development branch [1]. I am still not sure if expanding _LT_SYS_HIDDEN_LIBDEPS for FC is required. If it is not breaking anything, I will likely keep it the same. [1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtool.git/commit/?h=development&id=f93cf989fab1d9af2fad7c813f71bdf4d273a5f9 -- Ileana Dumitrescu GPG Public Key: FA26 CA78 4BE1 8892 7F22 B99F 6570 EA01 146F 7354