Re: linking a C program with a C++ library on Solaris

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Eric,

* Eric Blake wrote on Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 02:04:05PM CET:
> According to Ralf Wildenhues on 2/25/2008 11:58 PM:
> |> I believe that backward compatability has been mostly respected.
> |
> | Yes, but just running libtoolize has never been enough.  Running aclocal
> | (with Libtool 2.2's macro files visible to aclocal) to get the new macro
> | definitions is also needed; autoreconf -vf takes care of both.
>
> Although when upgrading m4 to a newer version of libtool, we noticed that
> autoreconf runs aclocal prior to libtoolize, which is probably the wrong
> order.  We still need to investigate whether autoconf should switch that
> order.

autoreconf should run aclocal both before and after libtoolize.
It does a certain amount of short-cutting, though.

If there is a bug you can reproduce (time stamps are important!)
I'm all ears.

Cheers,
Ralf