Re: GNU Libtool 1.5.10 released.

[Daniel Reed]

On 2004-09-19T23:15+0900, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
) New in 1.5.10: September 19th 2004
)
) * GNU/linux ia64 fixes.

This is definitely the case; make check passes on all of the architectures
in Red Hat's FC3 build root, including ia64, without patches. Thanks.


) * Works on platforms with no c++ compiler.

This is true, but I am a little underwhelmed. After retooling with 1.5.10,
my naim tarballs have increased significantly in size:

-rw-r--r-- 543971 Sep 18 19:16 naim-0.11.7.3-2004-09-18-1916.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 616059 Sep 19 12:14 naim-0.11.7.3-2004-09-19-1214.tar.bz2

Previously, I had been using an older libtool.m4 with a few lines removed as
my acinclude.m4. This caused ./configure to not check for a C++ or Fortran
compiler at all, as C++ and Fortran support are not even optionally useful
in my package.

I am now using no acinclude.m4, and am letting aclocal find libtool.m4 in
share/aclocal/. The C++ and Fortran checks are performed, and are failing
gracefully (without taking down the whole ./configure), but:

 ...
-rw-r--r--   2847 Jun  7  2003 README.es          2847 Jun  7  2003 README.es
-rw-r--r--   1176 Feb  1  2004 TODO               1176 Feb  1  2004 TODO
-rw-r--r-- 219075 Nov 26  2003 acinclude.m4
-rw-r--r--  28226 Sep 18 15:07 aclocal.m4       239043 Sep 19 12:10 aclocal.m4
-rwxr-xr-x   3642 Jan 16  2004 compile*           3642 Jan 16  2004 compile*
-rwxr-xr-x  42918 Jan 16  2004 config.guess*     42918 Jan 16  2004 
config.guess*
-rwxr-xr-x  30925 Jan 16  2004 config.sub*       30925 Jan 16  2004 config.sub*
-rwxr-xr-x 446922 Sep 18 15:07 configure*       796712 Sep 19 12:11 configure*
-rw-r--r--   8993 Sep 18 15:06 configure.in       8993 Sep 19 12:10 configure.in
drwxr-xr-x     80 Sep 18 19:16 contrib/             80 Sep 19 12:14 contrib/
 ...

aclocal.m4 is now the size of acinclude.m4+aclocal.m4 from before, which is
reasonable, but configure is nearly twice as large (350kB bigger) as before.

This is repeated in libltdl/ as well. I can reduce the tarball size by 20kB
(to 594619) if I have libltdl/acinclude.m4 just be:
m4_include([../aclocal.m4])

This reduces libltdl/aclocal.m4's size, but libltdl/configure is still 340kB
larger than before 1.5.10.

-- 
Daniel Reed <address@hidden>    http://people.redhat.com/djr/   
http://naim.n.ml.org/
The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly
degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere
generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable
of application to any particular. -- Eric Temple Bell, Mathematician