* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 01:20:29PM CET:
>
> Other quite serious bug:
>
> 3) In CVS HEAD Libtool, we use
> m4_ifndef([AC_PROG_SED],[
> AC_DEFUN([AC_PROG_SED], [...])
> ])
>
> This will cause aclocal (at least up to 1.7, lower than 1.9) to
> always pull in this libtool.m4. Even if the user does not use
> AC_PROG_LIBTOOL at all, as in:
> AC_INIT
> AC_PROG_SED
> AC_OUTPUT
I have applied the patch below to HEAD to fix this.
> 4) In CVS libtool, we don't provide backward compatibility for
> LT_AC_PROG_SED. We probably should.
I think it would be safe to ignore this: we never advertised
LT_AC_PROG_SED. Users would be best to not use it. People needing it
would be best to use the Autoconf version when it is out.
Cheers,
Ralf
* libltdl/m4/libtool.m4 (AC_PROG_SED): m4_defun this rather
than AC_DEFUN, so that old aclocal does not pick this up.
Index: libltdl/m4/libtool.m4
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/libtool/libtool/libltdl/m4/libtool.m4,v
retrieving revision 1.59
diff -u -r1.59 libtool.m4
--- libltdl/m4/libtool.m4 3 Feb 2006 20:03:54 -0000 1.59
+++ libltdl/m4/libtool.m4 9 Feb 2006 16:01:07 -0000
@@ -6730,7 +6730,7 @@
# macro and use it instead. #
############################################################
-AC_DEFUN([AC_PROG_SED],
+m4_defun([AC_PROG_SED],
[AC_MSG_CHECKING([for a sed that does not truncate output])
AC_CACHE_VAL(lt_cv_path_SED,
[# Loop through the user's path and test for sed and gsed.
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