Re: support standalone libltdl [libtool--gary--1.0--patch-23]

[Noah Misch]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 07:25:00PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> On my machine, several of the above files are installed the same second.
> So, on the client machine where libtoolize is executed, they will have
> the same time.  If libtoolize were to update time stamps, then it would
> need to know the order (and could _not_ infer it from timestamps).  But
> _then_ it would not matter at all which time the installed files had
> anyway.  Not at all.
> 
> So in that case you could just leave it all to libtoolize to do the
> ordering.  My thought so far was, that it's sufficient to do the
> ordering in "make install" as I've mentioned above, and leave the "tar
> hack" in libtoolize.

Would adding AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to the libltdl `configure.ac' usefully help
shield users from these time stamp problems?