Re: CVS libtool package issues

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Charles Wilson wrote:

> Also, check the 'In the Near Term" section here:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/future.html
> Of the four bullet points, AFAIK only one ("Robert Collins...") has
> actually been achieved.

This page seems to be rather out of date.

> >   3) The Makefile.am files used by the libtool demos are not
> >      compatable with any version of Automake newer than 1.6.2
> >      due to this error:
> >
> >   Makefile.am: object `longer_file_name_hello.lo' created both with
> >   libtool and without
> >   Makefile.am: object `longer_file_name_foo.lo' created both with
> >   libtool and without
> >
> >   4) With Autoconf 2.56 and Automake 1.7.1, automake fails with the
> >      error:
> >
> >   tests/Makefile.am:73: FFLAGS was already defined in condition TRUE,
> >   which implies condition HAVE_F77_TRUE ...
> >   configure.ac:111: ... `FFLAGS' previously defined here.
>
>
> Are you sure?  I've seen both messages, but I always thought they were
> warnings, not errors.  I had no problems building and testing, even
> after the appearance of those messages.  (cygwin-over-w2k)

It is not always clear what is a warning and what is an error,
regardless, libtool should work cleanly with the Autoconf & Automake
which are current at the time of release.

Bob
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