Re: autobuild logs for Libtool

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 05:04:18AM CEST:
> On 23 Aug 2010, at 01:38, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > * Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 08:50:55PM CEST:
> > OK to commit?
> 
> My other comments on this thread notwithstanding, please go ahead...

Thanks, done.

> if you have time and inclination to automate the setting of autobuild_mode
> per those other comments before you push, so much the better.

Later.

> > The AB_INIT invocation causes something like this extra info to appear
> > in the configure output:
> > 
> > configure: autobuild project... GNU Libtool
> > configure: autobuild revision... 2.2.11a (1.3227 2010-08-09)
> 
> is it about time we started using git-version-gen instead of our crazy
> CVS version number faking script?

Another thing that would benefit from using gnulib-tool.

> I'll do this before the pending release if you'd like.

Just to let you know beforehand: that bit is tricky as well, so you
might want to test it well.  For example, it must not fail in sources
extracted from a tarball, and it should not fail in a git checkout when
git is not present.

Cheers,
Ralf