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Date:      Fri, 30 Jan 2015 12:22:25 +0100
From:      Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Keith" <kwoody@citywest.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FBSD 8.1 Libtool Upgrade.
Message-ID:  <20150130122225.2d30c9f8@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org>
In-Reply-To: <006601d03c26$2af5f3d0$80e1db70$@citywest.ca>
References:  <006601d03c26$2af5f3d0$80e1db70$@citywest.ca>

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On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 16:46:21 -0800 "Keith" <kwoody@citywest.ca> wrote:
> Was going to install NRPE, nagios tool and got this error:
> 
> ===>   Found libtool-2.2.6b, but you need to upgrade to libtool>=2.4
> 
> Now this is a production machine running FBSD 8.1 and:
> 
> Dovecot 2.2.9
> Postfix 2.7.1
> 
> I am a little concerned about updating a library like this, but from what
> I have read here:
> 
> http://www.freshports.org/devel/libtool
> 
> Neither of these programs use libtool to either build or are needed to run.
> 
> Those are the only programs that run on this machine except for the usual
> out of the box type stuff.
> 
> Would it be safe to upgrade libtool?

Libtool is not a library.  It's a build tool to build libraries.  So
it's a probably safe.



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