Re: Constantly changing libtool

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 14 Apr 2021, Laurence Marks wrote:

> It is not timestamp issues, it is version issues -- e.g. libtool 2.4.2
> versus 2.4.6 (for instance, those are just invented numbers). In many cases
> aclocal, libtool, ltmain.sh and maybe a few others do not work if they were
> created with a different autoXYZ version than is on the computer where they
> are being installed. It seems to be "special" to libtool.

There has not been a libtool release since 2014 and it is 2021 
already.

The issues you are complaining about should not be existing for quite 
a long time already, and are easily corrected by installing consistent 
Autotools versions under the same installation prefix.  If you don't 
like the archaic versions your system provides, then simply uninstall 
(or not use) those packages and install using current Autotools 
release versions.

It is intended that libtool components are installed into the software 
which uses them.  This assures consistent versions.  If the libtool 
components were not installed and distributed with the package, then 
there could be problems as you describe.

Bob
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