Re: FYI: libtool--devo--1.0--patch-204

[Charles Wilson]

Gary V. Vaughan wrote:

> Hi Bob,
>
> Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>
> > The new libtool may be more wonderful than pre-sliced bread (toasts and
> > butters, in addition to slicing), but it seems that CVS libtool's
> > cross-platform portability is currently at one of the lowest points in
> > memory.  We need to get this puppy stabilized and tested across many
> > platforms/compilers since libtool is supposed to be cross-platform
> > portability software.  Relatively simple issues like print/echo/grep
> > have been getting in the way of this testing.
>
>
> Well said.  I'm going to create a branch-2-0 for this release, and use
> the tarball to test on the platforms I have access to.  I'll also downgrade
> to Autoconf-2.59 and Automake-1.9.2.

1.9.2??  Sheesh, and I just got around to releasing a 1.9.1 version for 
cygwin...

> > As for myself, I have been negligent with testing/fixing libtool under
> > MinGW.  Last I looked, it has become completely broken under MinGW and
> > can no longer even build libltdl.  I will try to find time.
>
>
> Wow, that's bad!  I gather that cygwin is in pretty good shape at the moment
> too (when I revert Chucks last changeset ;-)

Well, almost all of my recent changes are part of a
  "*cygwin* | *mingw*)"
case statement, so it's possible things are no longer quite as dire as 
all that on mingw.

BTW, that last patch (4-csw-cygwin-undo3-fix-postinstall_cmds.patch) is 
not COMPLETELY a mere reversion of 
3-csw-cygwin-better-quoting-for-postinstall_cmds.changelog.  It is that, 
but also changes $rm to $RM.

--
Chuck