Re: libtool CVS permanently broken?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Robert Boehne wrote:

> Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> > 
> > I assume that libtool is currently a "dead" project since libtool CVS
> > has not been updated in weeks, but could the contents of CVS at least
> > be left in a functional state before allowing libtool to die?
> 
> I use it every day.  It hasn't had any checkins for awhile because
> it works so well.  Are you trying to report a bug? (note, extreme
> sarchasm ;)

I assumed that the problems would be immediately self-evident to
anyone who checked libtool out of CVS and attempted to use it:

% ./bootstrap 
autoheader: config-h.in is unchanged
Can't call method "close" on an undefined value at /usr/local/bin/automake line 
7751.

% ./configure
configure: loading site script /usr/local/share/config.site
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Configuring libtool 1.4c (1.1085 2001/12/06 19:34:36)
=====================================================

checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/local/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for mawk... no
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
./configure: syntax error at line 1504: `(' unexpected
%

% autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.52
% automake --version
automake (GNU automake) 1.5
% perl --version

This is perl, v5.6.1 built for sun4-solaris

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