Re: libltdl and make dist

[Thomas Degris]

Hello,

I added the --ltdl flag and it works now. Thank you very much. I have 
few questions:

- autoreconf: I would like to know what to use it for. Usually, I just 
do one bootstrap when I check out the code from cvs and then automake 
does everything correctly when I modified a Makefile.am or the 
configure.ac. All the correct commands are called by just using make. 
The only problem is when I add a folder, I have to rerun bootstrap. So, 
when I add a folder, instead of doing bootstrap maybe I should do 
autoreconf. Am I wrong ?

- one instance of libtool.m4: I have to say that I don't really 
understand what you are talking about. I am not familiar with m4 macros. 
So, I don't really understand the aim of doing the modifications you 
propose.

- ltdl: I guess I can remove libltdl files from cvs now it is generated 
every time.

Thank you very much again,

Thomas

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 02:20:25PM CEST:
>  
>
> > Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > Actually, if you
> > > don't need to support older Autoconf versions, it should use
> > > `autoreconf' instead of calling the autotools individually.
> > > If you want only one instance of the libtool.m4 macros and can allow use
> > > of latest autotools only, you should create a m4 directory, add
> > > ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4
> > > to toplevel Makefile.am, put all .m4 files there 
> > > (autoreconf calls the autotools with the right options then)
> > > [and for a future libtoolize version
> > > AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
> > > to toplevel configure.ac].
> > >      
> > Actually, you can do even better than that when using libltdl.  To avoid
> > duplication of configaux files and m4 macros between libltdl and your parent
> > project then in $top_srcdir/Makefile.am:
> >
> > ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I libltdl/m4
> >
> > in $top_srcdir/configure.ac:
> >
> > AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([libltdl/config])
> > AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([libltdl/m4])
> >    
>
> Sure.  But then you need to modify libltdl/Makefile.am and
> libltdl/configure.ac as well.  This interferes with
>  libtoolize --ltdl
> overwriting these changes.
>
> Note the bug reporter uses 1.5.x of Libtool.
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>
>
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