On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 12:13:44AM +0900, Peter O'Gorman wrote: > Joe Orton wrote: > > >Is there any chance of getting a libtool 1.5 release including support > >for the AC_LIBTOOL_TAGS macro? I keep having to recommend that people > >stick with libtool 1.4 for generating configure scripts. > > If I recall correctly, it was decided that it was more a new feature than a > bugfix. Also with libtool-2.0 coming "real soon now" (and libtool-2.0 has > such a feature already), it seems unlikely that there will be any further > releases from branch-1-5. If there is to be one, we can discuss this at > that time. > > Now, even though configure takes a fair bit longer, there are (as far as I > know) fewer bugs in 1.5.8 than there were in 1.4.x, so I am disappointed > that you see fit to recommend the older libtool.
It always disappoints me to do so too, that's why I'm making this plea :) The fact that libtool 1.5-based configure scripts fail on systems without a C++ compiler is a severe regression which outweighs all the great features and fixes since 1.4, unfortunately. > Maybe you can ensure that the rpm from redhat has this patch and then > you can simply recommend that everyone use redhat :-). A behaviour and interface change like this isn't something I'd like to advise our libtool maintainer to patch in. Making libtool have different behaviour in different distributions and vs upstream is a cause of great headaches for project maintainers. joe _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
