Re: README/NEWS

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Howdy Bob!

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> 
>>
>>> Do we need to "warn" people of any of the changes coming in 2.0?
>>
>>
>> Hopefully not.  Libtool-2.0 shouldn't require any change to users'
>> configure.ac or Makefile.am's, it should just offer new features and
> 
> 
> I am severely confused. Doesn't libtool 2.0 require use of an entirely
> different set of Autoconf macros than previous versions?

Nope.  There are a set of AU_DEFUN calls that will expand old libtool.m4
macro names using equivalent definitions from the new API.  If you choose
to run autoupdate, then configure.ac will be rewritten to the new API as
far as possible.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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