Re: [libtool 2.2.6] testsuite: 41 52 53 54 56 57 58 59 60 61 68 69 70 failed

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Sergei,

* Sergei Steshenko wrote on Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 12:30:06PM CET:
> --- On Sun, 11/1/09, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > Thanks for the report.  Do you have Autoconf 2.59
> > installed?
> > Then these failures should be fixed by either updating to a
> > newer
> > Autoconf release, or by this post-2.2.6 patch:
> > <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtool.git/commit/?id=8ae796bacd9b57cdcb68927d93d696552187b0bb>

> Shouldn't 'configure' check for the correct 'autoconf' version in the first
> place ?

Well, the Libtool macros should work with any non-ancient Autoconf
version.  Here, we messed up and accidentally broke support for 2.59.

If it turns out to be impossible to support some older Autoconf version,
then yes we should ensure that it is not used.  Currently, LT_INIT has
  AC_PREREQ([2.58])dnl We use AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT

which I think should be sufficient though.

Thanks,
Ralf