Re: RFC: 77-gary-diagnose-version-mismatch.patch

[Albert Chin]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 06:25:57PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 17:54, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> 
> > This patch kind of fell out of me wanting libtool to do automake-like 
> > version
> > mismatch checking at runtime, and autoconf-like AC_PREREQ version-minima.
> > 
> Ah, excellent, I've been thinking about this but never got as far as
> actually coding anything -- now I don't have to.
> 
> > If you don't like it, I will throw my toys out of the pram :-b  
> > Alternatively,
> > you might want to convince me to split out just the version checks with eg.
> > AC_PROG_LIBTOOL(1.5).
> > 
> No, this is kinda how I was going for as well in my head.  I'd like to
> see us drop AC_LIBTOOL_TAGS too and go for:
> 
> LT_INIT_LIBTOOL([1.6 C++ disabled-shared])

I'd rather:
  LT_PREREQ(<minimum version>)
  LT_INIT_LIBTOOL(<options>, <tags>)

So LT_INIT_LIBTOOL([1.6 C++ disabled-shared]) would be rewritten as:
  LT_PREREQ([1.6])
  LT_INIT_LIBTOOL([disabled-shared], [C++])

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albert chin (address@hidden)