Re: libtool-1.9f problems with Automake 1.4

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi James,

James Henstridge wrote:
> I know Automake 1.4 is quite old, but it would reduce the barrier to
> upgrading if libtool-2.0 worked with this version (especially since
> libtool-1.9f doesn't appear to be parallel installable with 1.x).
> 
> The problem is that aclocal-1.4 doesn't manage to successfully pull in
> the libtool macros.  This is because it doesn't correctly recognise
> AU_DEFUN() style macro definitions.  This can be solved by including a
> commented out AC_DEFUN() line for the macro in the same file, which will
> satisfy aclocal-1.4's regexps but get ignored by autoconf.
> 
> Attached is a patch that adds these commented out definitions, made
> against the libtool-1.9f release.

Thanks.  I am applying your patch to HEAD and branch-2-0, with one small
change:  I have distributed the commented definitions so that each is
next to the AU_DEFUN that it matches.

You forgot to supply a ChangeLog entry so I wrote this one for you:

* m4/libtool.m4, m4/ltdl.m4, m4/ltoptions.m4: Added commented out
empty macro definitions to match each AU_DEFUN to help aclocal
from automake-1.4 regexps find the right libtool macro files.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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