Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hi Peter, > > * Peter O'Gorman wrote on Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 05:11:47PM CET: >> Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >> >>> That's a bug, thanks for catching. Does it work if _LT_CHECK_BUILDDIR >>> is only m4_require'd? >>> >>> I assume if that's fixed, there will still be more issues. >>> >> It works a bit better, now tests fail saying "Autoconf version 2.58 or >> higher is required for this script" which is far more reasonable. >> >> I am not sure what to do in these cases, sure the tools are old, but >> people will download libtool-2.x and run ./configure; make; make check, >> and it will fail simply because they have older automake & autoconf. >> >> Should we print a warning at make check time warning users that their >> versions of automake and autoconf are too old to run the testsuite? > > For the tests for which it is ok that older autotools are insufficient, > we should just skip the individual test. I haven't had a chance to look > at the tests to see which ones should work and which ones shouldn't. > In any case the old-iface ones should.
Hah, I just looked to see where the 2.58 requirement was coming from ... it is, of course LT_INIT. Any autotest test that uses autoconf will fail with older autoconf (including old-iface). Peter -- Peter O'Gorman http://pogma.com _______________________________________________ Bug-libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-libtool
