the story goes like this:

i been trying to install xchm to read windows .chm files
one of its dependencies is chmlib

when compiling chmlib
i get the following error:


make

*** Warning: inferring the mode of operation is deprecated.
*** Future versions of Libtool will require -mode=MODE be specified.
libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration
libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag'
make: *** [chm_lib.lo] error 1


i search the world and found out that chmlib need an older version of
libtool


now i want to take the seemingly unwise move of degrading my libtool

when trying to removing libtool, my yast warns me other packages depends on
libtool. can i just remove and then reinstall libtool ?

what else can i do ?

//bow