Re: libtool HEAD and autoconf 2.13?

[Gary V . Vaughan]

On Monday 30 July 2001 8:19 pm, Ossama Othman wrote:
> Hi guys,

Howdy!

> I forget what the decision was about libtool HEAD and autoconf 2.13.
> Did we decide not to support autoconf 2.13?

Yup.  I'm betting that of the people who track autotools releases, pretty 
much no-one will still be using autoconf-2.13 by the time libtool-1.5 hits 
the streets.

> I've received some e-mails from users complaining about the fact using
> libtool 1.4b or HEAD forces them to use Autoconf 2.5x, which in turn
> breaks their configure scripts.

Hmmm... so they want to be only _half_ on the bleeding edge?  :-) I'm afraid 
that the congealing edge is not supported :-D

>From the libtool homepage:

  The CVS version of GNU libtool often depends on some yet to be released
  versions of GNU Autoconf and GNU Automake. 

Cheers,
        Gary.
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