Re: serial in branch-1-5 [[and branch-2-0]]

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 05:01:35PM +0000, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
>
> Yes, but it is also designed to work with a hand-maintained aclocal.m4
> for projects that don't use automake.  The search allows libtoolize to
> warn the user that an aclocal.m4 (or a file it m4_includes) needs to be
> updated in that case.

OK, got it.  Those are people I don't face so it's easy for me to
forget about their existence.  I'd be curious to know how many they
are.  (I know many people use aclocal without using automake, but I
have no idea how many people maintain aclocal.m4 by hand nowadays.)

> I'd rather automake relax it's regex to continue support for
> existing libtool serial lines though...

So do I.  But as I've said, it's not only Libtool; basically every
maintainer has it own syntax.  I'll bring the issue on the gnulib list
to see what gets out of there.  Ideally we should settle on a uniform
syntax rather than letting aclocal cope with many syntaxes.