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Re: 1.5 release
From: |
Alexandre Oliva |
Subject: |
Re: 1.5 release |
Date: |
25 Apr 2005 16:27:24 -0300 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 |
On Apr 24, 2005, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Alexandre,
> * Alexandre Oliva wrote on Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 12:42:42AM CEST:
>> On Apr 23, 2005, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> > -New in 1.5.15a: 2005-??-??; CVS version 1.5.15a, Libtool team:
>> > +New in 1.5.16: 2005-04-23; CVS version 1.5.15a, Libtool team:
>>
>> Erhm... If this is going out soon, could we perhaps get the patch I
>> posted for libtool.m4 in, to avoid configuring CXX and F77 in every
>> single libtool script, part of packages that only care about C?
> I wanted to do the release today, but I will at least wait for the
> Solaris feedback now.
> AC_PROVIDE_IFELSE is not in Autoconf 2.50 (AFAICT it's in 2.52). I
> don't know if we left its usability through other patches already, but
> we do still advertise 2.50 compatibility.
We have a fallback AC_PROVIDE_IFELSE early in libtool.m4, which
enables us to use it even in earlier autoconf. And we actually do use
it in AC_PROG_LIBTOOL.
> Also, this has been fixed properly in branch-2-0 and above.
Yep. This is 1.5 only.
> I have not tested your patch, but would feel the need to do so quite a
> bit if I were to put it in. (I have wondered whether to simply answer
> "not strictly a bug", but that would be making it a bit too easy on my
> side, I guess.)
I'm fine with such a decision. I was just surprised when a co-worker
reported this bug to me, and it took me a while to even admit this was
possible :-)
--
Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
Red Hat Compiler Engineer address@hidden, gcc.gnu.org}
Free Software Evangelist address@hidden, gnu.org}
- Re: 1.5 release, (continued)
- Re: 1.5 release, Gary V. Vaughan, 2005/04/23
- Re: 1.5 release, Ralf Wildenhues, 2005/04/23
- Re: 1.5 release, Ralf Wildenhues, 2005/04/23
- Re: 1.5 release, Bob Friesenhahn, 2005/04/23
- Re: 1.5 release, Ralf Wildenhues, 2005/04/23
- Re: 1.5 release, Bob Friesenhahn, 2005/04/23
- Re: 1.5 release, Ralf Wildenhues, 2005/04/23
- Re: 1.5 release, Bob Friesenhahn, 2005/04/23
- Re: 1.5 release, Alexandre Oliva, 2005/04/23
- Re: 1.5 release, Ralf Wildenhues, 2005/04/24
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- Re: 1.5 release, Ralf Wildenhues, 2005/04/25