bug#19370: Acknowledgement (LT 2.4.4 regression (vs. 2.4.2))

[Jeff Squyres (jsquyres)]

Thanks for replying, Gary. 

I did include what analysis I was able to do in my first email: I tracked down 
that the problem is that the "make" rules decide to invoke aclocal in the 
embedded libltdl because it's looking for non-existent files as dependencies 
(it looks like the wrong path is being used somehow?). I didn't go beyond that 
- I don't know the internals of libtool (this is a regression compared to 
2.4.2). 

I also included a reproducer, both as a tarball and as a link to a github repo. 

Hopefully that's enough to get you going in the right direction. 

Sent from my phone. No type good. 

> On Dec 19, 2014, at 3:19 PM, Gary V. Vaughan <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> I'm sorry, I didn't yet have chance to work on this... I'll try to reproduce 
> it over the holidays,
> and depending on whether that makes it obvious what's happening, a fix may or 
> not be
> straight forward and forthcoming.
> 
> It would certainly speed things along if you could help produce an analysis, 
> a small self
> contained reproducer, a test case and/or propose a patch.
> 
> Sorry I can't be of more help for the moment,
> -- 
> Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT vaughan DOT pe)
> 
>> On 19 Dec 2014, at 20:03, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> Any comments on this, perchance?
>> 
>> It's a blocker for us in the Open MPI project; it prevents us from upgrading 
>> from 2.4.2.
>> 
>> It's a bit of a problem because some software projects, such as mac-ports 
>> and home-brew are shipping LT >= 2.4.3.
>> 
>> 
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