I just took a look at those. Good catches on the typos, I probably would
not have noticed them just reading the script myself. Same thing with
the M4 `[]' quoting issue ( classic pitfall ). I'll get these merged ASAP.
For the non-Linux patches I can merge them, but I don't have personally
have OSX, powerpc, or Solaris boxes, and while I do have a Windows
partition I don't currently have it set up to run these kinds of tests.
Nonetheless I can merge these - if you have access to any of those
platforms let me know if you would be open to running `make check' and
posting the logs so I can sanity check the new behavior.
Thank you so much for bringing these to my attention. There's a long
list of old patches and mailing list archives and as a practical matter
it's hard to know which of them are still relevant - so I appreciate
your help.
On 11/20/21 2:56 AM, Ozkan Sezer wrote:
On 10/27/21, Alex Ameen <alex.ameen...@gmail.com> wrote:
Howdy!
This is Alex Ameen reporting in from Austin, Texas. I'm a long time GNU
and `autotools' user who specializes in ELF linking and loading. I'm
writing you today to introduce myself and announce that I was recently
approved as the new maintainer of `libtool'!
I'm excited to bring some updates to the tool and want to thank everyone
for their patience while I work my through the pending patch/bug lists
and get familiar with some of the maintenance infrastructure.
In the near future I look forward to extending `libtool' support for
modern ELF shared objects, and improved integration with the rest of
`autotools'. I'll share a more detailed roadmap after I've worked my
through the pending tasks in the mailing lists.
I want to express my appreciation for all of the `autotools' and
`libtool' maintainers/contributors before me. I understand that
`libtool' is an important piece of infrastructure for a number of
important pieces of software, and I aim to treat modifications and
extensions appropriately with that responsibility in mind ( don't worry
I'm not going to break legacy behavior with reckless abandon haha ).
Feel free to reach out if you have pending patches/issues you want to
"bump", ideas for improvements, general advice for a new GNU maintainer
- and above all if you'd like to lend a hand toward getting `libtool' up
and running again.
Thank you for your time,
-Alex Ameen
It would be nice if the patches for the following long-standing
bugs were applied:
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=21137 (also reported
duplicately as 22895, 31900 and 36762)
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=22373
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=23348
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=38305
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=46559
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=44605 (also see 44684)
And maybe this?
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=41837
--
O.S.
