Re: 2.4 Release in 24hrs

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Eric,

* Eric Blake wrote on Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 06:35:21PM CEST:
> On 09/18/2010 10:03 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> >I'm planning to make the belated 2.4 release in about 24 hours.
> >
> >If there is any reason you'd like me to hold off for a bit longer,
> >please speak up now!
> 
> Can we ship libltdl/m4/autobuild.m4 as a static copy of a decently
> recent autobuild.m4, rather than requiring autobuild to be
> pre-installed where aclocal can find autobuild.m4?  After all, this
> is how coreutils, m4, and the soon-to-be-released autoconf 2.68 do
> things.
> http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git/commit/?id=842807af6
> 
> And in doing so, it may ease Chuck's burden in porting libtool 2.4
> to cygwin:
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2010-09/msg00121.html

OK with me if it helps that.

Be sure to *not* list autobuild.m4 anywhere else, e.g., in Makefile.am.
It is picked up automatically.  You can make the AB_INIT call in
configure.ac unconditional, but then again, no loss in leaving it as it
is.

Thanks,
Ralf