Re: configuring libltdl

[Gary V. Vaughan]

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Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
| On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
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|>On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 03:35:25PM +0000, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
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|>>If so, all we need is to add a call to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE to
|>>AC_LIB_LTDL.  Hmmm, but then if a non-automake project calls
|>>AC_LIB_LTDL, when they run autoreconf, it will run automake -a :-(
|>
|>Running automake in this case sounds sensible to me.
|
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| Running automake would sound sensible to an Automake maintainer.  :-)
| However, if the user is not using Automake then it may be that they
| are not a fan of Automake, or perhaps a reasonable Automake is not
| even installed.
|
| It seems easiest to take an Automake-generated Makefile.in and use it
| as a reference to creating a stripped-down version which is sufficient
| to build ltdl.c into a library using libtool.  That way the Makefile
| is maximally compatible with Automake, while not being an Automake
| Makefile.

I don't really want to take on the burden of hand maintaining an enormous
generated Makefile.in, when maintaining a tiny Makefile.am and enhancing
automake a little to help with generation is possible.

Why not try adding AC_REQUIRE([AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE]) to AC_LIB_LTDL and enumerate
the problems... it will be interesting to find out how much pain there is at
least :-)

Cheers,
        Gary.
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