Re: system libraries that need -R/path/

[Gary V. Vaughan]

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Harlan Stenn wrote:
| IMO the macros belong in autoconf, as autoconf is where folks are *using*
| the libraries and need the -R flag.
|
| I would not want to have to remember to update/install libtool someplace
| in order to get these macros.  I don't want to tell folks who want to use
| the maintainer version of the NTP tree that they now also have to install
| libtool.  NTP does not use libtool and I have no plans for it to do so.

The problem with maintaining them in autoconf is that they will always be a
step behind the equivalent code in libtool, and neither would get the others
bug fixes reliably.

If you don't want the hassle of installing libtool on your machine, you could
add the following to your Makefile in NTP:

SAVANNAH_GNU_ORG = http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/~checkout~
LIBTOOL_M4 = libtool/m4/libtool.m4

fetch:
        wget $(SAVANNAH_GNU_ORG)/$(LIBTOOL_M4)

Cheers,
        Gary.
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