* Richard Purdie wrote on Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 12:38:15AM CEST:
Let me try again to explain the problem. Makefile.am contains:
$(ECHO) address@hidden@@address@hidden '{global:' > address@hidden
$(SED) s/$$/\;/ libpng.sym >> address@hidden
$(ECHO) 'local: *; };' >> address@hidden
automake expands ECHO_C, ECHO_N, ECHO_T and lt_ECHO but not ECHO
anymore. libtool 1.5 macros happened to let ECHO be expanded but in
2.2.2 this is lt_ECHO.
Since nothing expands ECHO anymore this breaks with libtool 2.2.2.
Ah, ok, you've got a legitimate case here, then. We had been wondering
whether not expanding ECHO any more would be problematic for packages.
Unfortunately, that seems to be the case, although the libtool-computed
value for formerly ECHO, now lt_ECHO, is not strictly usable outside of
the ltmain.sh script or the configure script, as on really old systems
it may expand to something like "$0 --fallback-echo ...".
In this particular case above, plain 'echo' should suffice.