Re: FYI: libtool--devo--1.0--patch-200

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Gary,

* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 03:13:12PM CEST:
> Hallo Ralf!
> 
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >> > In generated `libtool' files (e.g., tests/mdemo/libtool after
> >> > mdemo-conf.test)
> >> > there is no $echo defined, but used.
> >>
> >> You're test directories are probably picking up an old ltmain.sh.  Can
> >> you
> >> rerun bootstrap, and try again?  I've just managed a successful make
> >> distcheck
> >> of HEAD from my VPATH based tree.
> > 
> > 
> > sheesh ..
> > .. three bootstraps later ..
> > .. no.  Removing aclocal.m4, config/ltmain.sh, copying over m4/ stuff
> > into $aclocaldir all did not help.  rm -rf autom4te.cache didn't do the
> > trick either.
> > I don't really know where to start looking, at least
> > $ grep '\<echo=' libtool
> > is empty (as opposed to ECHO and qecho).
> 
> Hmmm.  That's what I would expect.  Where do you have a reference to $echo
> in libtool, ltmain.sh and ltmain.in?  I thought I had eliminated all of them
> when I synchronised all of libtool's scripts on $ECHO. :-(
> 
> I still can't reproduce it, and the only references to $echo are in the
> configure time m4/ directory.  At build and runtime libtool uses $ECHO
> exclusively:
*snip*
> So the only references to $echo in my tree are from config.status (in turn
> from libtool.m4), and I use $ECHO all over the place, and my entire testsuite
> passes, so it must be set correctly too...
> 
> Not too much help for you though.  Sorry :-(

Thank you.  I think you just provided enough information :-)

$ grep '_LT_TAGVAR.*\$echo' ../m4/*

is not empty.  E.g., on linux-gnu, libtool will contain

| archive_expsym_cmds="\$echo \\\"{ global: [...]

Now I merely don't know which would be the correct way to fix these.

Regards,
Ralf