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Re: function-local variables in ltmain
From: |
Albert Chin |
Subject: |
Re: function-local variables in ltmain |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Aug 2005 10:32:30 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.5.6i |
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 12:29:13PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >* Albert Chin wrote on Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 09:56:43PM CEST:
> >
> >>On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 10:40:01AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >>
> >>>2) This looks somewhat ugly in the output, but to a certain extent, it
> >>>is possible to emulate local variables with m4sh: see below.
> >>
> >>Way ugly.
> >
> >Yep.
>
> That doesn't matter. The output of gcc is ugly too! We should be
> maintaining the source files (.m4sh), and anything that makes them
> easier to read and edit is a good thing.
>
> >>Just seems to make libtool harder to maintain.
>
> Au contraire. Once any such mechanism has been debugged, it makes
> libtool easier to maintain... as has been the case with several of the
> refactorings I've done as we progress towards 2.0.
But debugging libtool occurs with the _generated_ "libtool" script.
Making the output sane should help debugging, not hinder it. Is this
so much of a problem that we need such a big hammer to solve it? I
don't recall seeing enough PRs to consider it.
--
albert chin (address@hidden)
- function-local variables in ltmain, Ralf Wildenhues, 2005/08/13
- Re: function-local variables in ltmain, Albert Chin, 2005/08/13
- Re: function-local variables in ltmain, Ralf Wildenhues, 2005/08/14
- Re: function-local variables in ltmain, Gary V. Vaughan, 2005/08/16
- Re: function-local variables in ltmain, Ralf Wildenhues, 2005/08/16
- Re: function-local variables in ltmain, Gary V. Vaughan, 2005/08/16
- Re: function-local variables in ltmain, Ralf Wildenhues, 2005/08/16
- Re: function-local variables in ltmain, Gary V. Vaughan, 2005/08/16
- Re: function-local variables in ltmain,
Albert Chin <=
- Re: function-local variables in ltmain, Gary V. Vaughan, 2005/08/17
- Re: function-local variables in ltmain, Bob Friesenhahn, 2005/08/17