Re: [libtool 2.2] testsuite: 19 35 36 44 45 46 48 49 50 51 52 53 60 61 62 64 failed [GNU/Linux PowerPC]

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> That's not a workable solution.  The normal configure output and
> config.log were invented to do what Bob wants.  Libtool cannot in
> general know what is important for the package, IMVHO.  So if the
> functioning of a compiler is important, then configure should simply
> fail if the compiler does not work.

I tend to agree with this, but the author of the package needs a way 
to know that libtool has failed to sufficiently configure and have a 
way to notify the user.  Right now there is no documented way to know 
if libtool encountered problems during configuration.

Bob
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