Hi Olly, * Olly Betts wrote on Wed, May 10, 2006 at 04:38:08PM CEST: > On 2006-05-10, Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - there was actually a regression in 1.5.22 over 1.5.20 which caused > > some paths to be incorrectly removed on FreeBSD and some other BSD > > variants. Has since been fixed in CVS branch-1-5 (and HEAD). > > Is there likely to be a 1.5.24 release soon?
Oh dear. Don't ask about my original plans. They were something like this: have Autoconf-2.60 in March, then Libtool-1.5.24 soon after that, then Libtool-2.0 soon after that. :-/ I know Libtool-1.5.24 is important to get out, due to the regressions I put in 1.5.22. And it will be my primary focus once Autoconf-2.60 is done. However, there are some other systems that need fixes, HP-UX being one of them; and a few more patches which have queued up since. As I don't like to plan on an 1.5.26 (at least not before releasing 1.5.24), I would like to have at least all the currently-known serious stuff in 1.5.24, so that then we can finally concentrate on 2.0 again. :-/ The good thing being that I expect Autoconf-2.60 to be done this month. > I've just spent a while trying to extract that patch from CVS to see if > it fixed so odd build issues I've been seeing on some of the BSDs, but > it appears to be impossible to do without a very recent CVS which allows > you to diff between two dates on a branch (1.12.12.1 can, but 1.12.9 > can't and that's the version in debian unstable!) I'm not especially > keen to install CVS from source just to extract a patch! The two regressions: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2006-03/msg00007.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2006-03/msg00006.html Another important patch (for DragonFly): http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2006-03/msg00027.html > I can probably track the patch down on the libtool patches list (and > hope that the latest version posted was close to that applied) but I > noticed from the ChangeLog that there are a number of other fixes which > sound useful, Definitely. > and that it's been longer since 1.5.22 than between other > recent releases, so I was wondering if a release was imminent. Well, the longer delay has been due to me working primarily on Autoconf, and few people working on Libtool meanwhile. I know this isn't good, and to some extent it may not have been a good idea in hindsight, but OTOH Autoconf users have been waiting almost 3 years for a new release, and some pretty desperately. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
