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Re: autoreconf misses ltmain.sh


From: Ralf Corsepius
Subject: Re: autoreconf misses ltmain.sh
Date: 23 Sep 2002 12:23:34 +0200

Am Mon, 2002-09-23 um 10.49 schrieb Alexandre Duret-Lutz:
> >>> "Ralf" == Ralf Corsepius <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
>  Ralf> http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/libtool-patches/2002-January/001659.html
> 
>  Ralf> .. which seems to indicate that libtool is the culprit.
>  Ralf> => There doesn't exist any officially released version of libtool that
>  Ralf> is usable with autoconf-2.54 and automake-1.7
> 
> Not exactly: there is no release of Libtool that honors
> AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR in configure.*ac*.
> 
>  Ralf> .. still nobody wanting to care to fix it?
> 
> AFAICT it's fixed in CVS Libtool.

We are talking about released SW rsp. to be released SW here.

The current situation is: libtool and autoreconf do not interact
together, rendering autoreconf entirely useless and unreliable in total
in many situations, no matter if libtool is the culprit or not.

Pointing users to cvs versions is acceptable as long a tool is in
development, however once a tool is release, this situation changes.
Read: Users will yell at autoconf, because _it_ can't deal with released
versions of libtool.

In my opinion it is prohibitive and stupid not to have a libtool release
that can properly interact with autoconf.

Ralf








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