Re: Problem with autoconf 2.52

[Robert Boehne]

"Gary V. Vaughan" wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 03:45:14PM -0500, David Snopek wrote:
> > This is not exactly a bug, but it does require an extra step inorder to
> > work properly.  Here is the situation:
> >
> > Imagine that you're including libltdl as a convenience library in a
> > package (using "libtoolize --ltdl"), and specify
> > "AC_CONFIG_SUBDIRS(libltdl)" in your configure.in.  You're using
> > autoconf 2.52 to generate the configure script.
> >
> > Under most situations, this runs fine.  But there are weird problems
> > that can happen because the "configure" in libltdl was generated using
> > 2.13.  Most notably, specifying any host, target, or build option will
> > cause libltdl's configure to exit with error.
> >
> > This can be solved a couple of ways:
> >
> > (1) Using "libtoolize --ltdl --copy" and running "aclocal ; autoconf ;
> > automake" in the libltdl directory.
> > (2) Generating the original copy (located in
> > ${prefix}/share/libtool/libltdl) with the newest version of autoconf
> > since I believe they are all "forward-compatible".
> > (3) Cause the "configure" in libltdl to be regenerated with using the
> > local system autoconf when "libtoolize --ltdl" is called.  I think this
> > is the most elegant solution.
> >
> > In any case, I think the user should be warned.  This should be put in a
> > FAQ or added to the info pages on libltdl.
> >
> > If anyone has any additional questions or comments, please e-mail me
> > directly as I am not subscribed to the list.  I hope this helps somebody!!
> 
> I think it ought to be the responsibility of the developer to bootstrap
> their package correctly... to encourage that, I guess we should have
> `libtoolize --ltdl' not install generated files into their package.  And we
> should reflect that in the documentation too, obviously.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> Cheers,
>         Gary.
> --

I agree.

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