Re: patch-6: several changes to libtoolize.m4sh

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Gary,

* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 12:08:35PM CEST:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > This has been so long ago it's a shame:
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2005-12/msg00075.html
> 
> So long that I'd completely forgotten about it!!

I have a mail folder with issues going back a few years
(basically since I subscribed to libtool lists).

> > * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:39:55PM CET:
> >> I'm not sure `cp -p' is portable enough.  We've used `tar' previously
> >> because of this (among other things).
> > 
> > I've changed the patch to use tar.  Although I really really doubt there
> > to be any real advantage here of tar over cp -p.  If there were such an
> > issue, it should definitly be mentioned in the Autoconf portability
> > section.
> 
> I don't remember what the issues were that we encountered :-(  But,
> we did have good reason for moving from cp -p to tar back in the day.
> I don't mind trying to revert to cp -p after the release if the
> archives don't hold a good reason not to.

I might check eventually...

> > I've applied the patch as shown below.
> 
> Thanks for remembering!  Once I've got my dev environment set up again,
> I have a couple of patches in quilt that need resynching with HEAD, and
> that need consideration before 2.0.

I may have obsoleted some of your patches, maybe even by redoing them in
a less elegant way.  Oh well.  Expect more patches soon.

Cheers,
Ralf