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autoscan: suppress warning about AC_PROG_RANLIB if AC_PROG_LIBTOOL is pr
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Ben Pfaff |
Subject: |
autoscan: suppress warning about AC_PROG_RANLIB if AC_PROG_LIBTOOL is present? |
Date: |
Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:38:45 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) |
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In April 2008, Jack Bates <address@hidden> reported that
autoscan recommends adding AC_PROG_RANLIB to configure.ac, but
that libtoolize subsequently complains about AC_PROG_RANLIB as
"obsolete".
The AC_PROG_RANLIB macro is not really obsolete from an Autoconf
point of view, as far as I know. It is not, for example,
documented as obsolete. It is just, as I understand it, that
libtool does not need it and performs an equivalent function, so
that it warns that it is not helpful to use AC_PROG_RANLIB
yourself.
One possible solution would be for autoscan to notice
AC_PROG_LIBTOOL and then suppress a warning about AC_PROG_RANLIB.
Is that a good solution? If so, then I will see what it takes to
implement it.
Jack's original bug report is here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=478310
--
Ben Pfaff
http://benpfaff.org
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