Re: Using libtool 2.0 in autoconf tests

[Peter O'Gorman]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> C'mon Gary, two questions: is it *possible* to provide the old behavior
> without too much pain?  Would that destroy some cool abstraction or some
> really fundamental thing?
>
> Or are you just waiting for a patch to do this?  (ok, that was three
> questions now).

I would approve a patch which added LT_TRY_LINK or some such macro, and 
created a temporary configure time libtool script to do so. I think it would 
be a fairly hefty patch though. There is certainly enough information 
available to allow this as soon as the LT_INIT macro is complete, though 
there will be issues with quoting, as things are quoted one extra time 
because of the intervening config.status.

The issue is a real one, and should be addressed. I am not convinced that it 
need be addressed for libtool-2.0 though, nor that it requires reverting to 
libtool-1.5 behavior.

Peter
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