Re: Calling libtool from configure.ac

2008-09-23 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 14:11 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Scott James Remnant wrote on Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 02:08:03PM CEST: > > While porting a bunch of GNOME applications from using libtool 1.5 to > > 2.2, we've encountered a couple that use libtool in their conf

Calling libtool from configure.ac

2008-09-23 Thread Scott James Remnant
the best approach to porting these would be? Scott -- Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool

autoreconf vs. libtoolize when upgrading to libtool 2.2

2008-07-23 Thread Scott James Remnant
ven, and add the argument when given. Assuming both maintainer groups are ok with this, I'm happy to cook up some patches. I'm also happy to hear alternate suggestions? Scott -- Scott James Remnant [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This

Re: another 1.5 release

2004-12-03 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 18:36 -0500, Daniel Reed wrote: > Is there any chance .multilib2 can be incorporated into 1.5.12? As written, > it simply causes libtool to ask gcc to find .la files if gcc is in use. It > should have no impact on non-gcc builds and should not cause any files to be > missed (

Re: RFC: proposal for indirect deplibs

2004-11-25 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 10:19 +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Libtool and inter-library dependencies > == > > needed-following linker: > A system with a needed-following linker has a means to record > dependencies on other libraries within a library (based on the

Re: TODO

2004-11-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 11:15 -0800, Jacob Meuser wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 03:02:55PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > Actually, I'd say the opposite is true ... the LONGER link line, > > produced by the current Libtool, is what allows people to get away with >

Re: TODO

2004-11-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 10:51 -0800, Jacob Meuser wrote: > On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 03:45:10PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > It does assume that all library dependencies are registered, yes. This > > has never been a problem, because we've never found any Libtool-produ

Re: TODO

2004-11-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 17:19 -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > >> Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > >>> > >>> Doesn't this patch cause Linux to be more equal than other operating > >>> systems, thereby causing free applications to be developed which won't > >>> w

Re: TODO

2004-11-15 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 15:51 +, Joe Orton wrote: > On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 02:42:51PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 13:16 +, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > > > > > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > >>>>Scott James Remna

Re: TODO

2004-11-15 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 15:34 +, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > Scott James Remnant wrote: > > > I submitted keybuk-linux-deplibs.patch to libtool-patches back in March, > > and there was a slight objection from Bob and nobody else joined in to > > ok it. > > The list

Re: TODO

2004-11-15 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 13:16 +, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >>>>Scott James Remnant wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>They're both trying to deal with platforms like Solaris that don't have > >>>>>a n

Re: TODO

2004-11-15 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 14:45 -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, Albert Chin wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 08:57:27AM +, Scott James Remnant wrote: > >> They're both trying to deal with platforms like Solaris that don't have >

Re: TODO ... solution to the pkg-config "conflict"?

2004-11-15 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 17:37 -0800, Jacob Meuser wrote: > On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 08:53:15AM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > I actually tend to think we should look at this the other way ... if we > > could expose the information Libtool has to other tools, pkg-config >

Re: TODO

2004-11-15 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 13:35 -0500, Daniel Reed wrote: > On 2004-11-14T08:50-0000, Scott James Remnant wrote: > ) On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 11:20 +, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > ) > Haven't thought through the -I thing yet though... maybe that doesn't > ) > belong in libto

Re: TODO

2004-11-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 23:02 -0800, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > It doesn't care about package versions, but it has to care about library > > versions and paths to libraries. > > again, functionality provided by pkg-config. > > I am contesting the claim "Libtool already has all the information > it ne

Re: TODO

2004-11-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 15:27 -0800, Jacob Meuser wrote: > On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 10:21:19AM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > It's just that their functionality > > intersects and partially conflicts. > > how? > > pkg-config is used to give basic information about installed packages. > libtool is

Re: TODO

2004-11-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 11:20 +, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > Albert Chin wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 03:43:48PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > > > Ick. Libtool is about portably building/using libraries. Why can't we > > leave it at that? > > B

Re: License of m4/ltoptions.m4

2004-11-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 14:57 -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > As a special exception to the GNU General Public License, if you > distribute this file as part of a package that automatically derives > from this file a configuration script (and perhaps some associated > intermediate files), then you may d

Re: TODO

2004-11-11 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 12:17 -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > >> However it *also* provides the right -I flags to point at the include > >> files. A GTK+ application will '#include ' for example > >> and require -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 to actually be

Re: TODO

2004-11-10 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 13:25 +, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > Peter O'Gorman wrote: > > Well, I haven't thought about it really, I was vaguely imagining running > > a perl script during bootstrap which would take the bits and pieces and > > put them all together. I am told that xslt could do this to

Re: TODO

2004-11-10 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 14:24 +, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > 6. Absorb the functionality of the aberration called pkg-config. Libtool > already has all the information it needs, we just need to teach it (or > maybe a subsidiary script) to spit out link flags after poking around > in a

Re: TODO

2004-11-10 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 16:29 +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > 6. Versioned libraries. Although this is not very portable yet, it is a > concept which IMHO needs support. Many people ask for it. > One of the principal problems is that you need to record when symbols were added to the library to ge

Re: TODO

2004-11-10 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 14:24 +, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > > 5. Think about speed, compile mode needs to be as fast as possible, can > > it be faster than it is? > > 6. Absorb the functionality of the aberration called pkg-config. Libtool > already has all the information it needs, we just

Re: error with inter-library-dependencies

2004-11-04 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 15:08 +0100, Christoph Wellner wrote: > I have a problem with libtool-1.5.6, when I want to start my compiled app, > I get an error-message, that some libraries are not found: > > /home/chwellner/nmm2_sarge/apps/clic/.libs/lt-clic: error while loading > shared libraries:

Re: Why doesn't ...

2004-06-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 21:23 +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > >>> "Gary" == Gary V Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > Gary> FYI: I've made CVS libtoolize take its files from $aclocaldir again. > > Great! Thanks for doing this. > > Does it also handle the case where AC_CONFIG

Re: Linking against indirect dependencies

2004-05-26 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 08:07 +0200, Szombathelyi GyÃrgy wrote: > > Yes, I read the thread. I agree that libtool should perform the > > optimization you want but I don't see it as something that is a > > show-stopper. > > > I agree that it isn't a show-stopper, but it would be very nice if > libto

Re: Multiple -rpaths

2004-05-15 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 02:27 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote: > I'm getting this warning (using libtool 1.5.6): > > libtool: link: warning: ignoring multiple `-rpath's for a libtool library > > I'm trying to build a module and I'm only explicitly adding one rpath in > LDFLAGS. The first one

Re: about libtool's trace interface for tags (gah, went to wrong list)

2004-04-17 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 22:48, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > >>> "Scott" == Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Scott> On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 18:45, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > >> Ah, thanks! Sorry for being dense, but since i

Re: about libtool's trace interface for tags

2004-04-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 18:45, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > Ah, thanks! Sorry for being dense, but since it takes > tag names as argument, why is it called _LT_LANG? > Because it actually takes language configuration names, which just happen to be the same as the tags that get generated. (Ther

Re: about libtool's trace interface for tags

2004-04-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 08:00, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > >>> "Scott" == Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Scott> On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 22:39, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > >> Is it done or is there any obstacle to it? I'm

Re: about libtool's trace interface for tags

2004-04-13 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 22:39, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > Is it done or is there any obstacle to it? I'm dreaming about > Automake 1.9, and if possible I would like to include support > for this. > The current interface should be pretty good, trace for invocations of _LT_TAG and the first argum

Re: [PATCH] x86-64 and multilib

2004-04-05 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 14:12, Jens Petersen wrote: > Albert, Thank you for looking at the patch, and sorry for taking > too long to follow up to your comments. (please see below) > > AC> You reset sys_lib_dlsearch_path_spec. > > AC> So, do you want to add to sys_lib_dlsearch_path_spec? >

Re: no serial number?

2004-03-23 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 16:48, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > Patrick Welche wrote: > | libtool.m4 contains: > | > | # serial 49 AC_PROG_LIBTOOL > | AC_DEFUN_ONCE([LT_INIT], > | AU_DEFUN([AC_PROG_LIBTOOL], [LT_INIT]) > | AU_DEFUN([AM_PROG_LIBTOOL], [LT_INIT]) > | > |>From the above, libtoo

Re: libtool: link: warning: '[.la file]' seems to be moved

2004-03-23 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 20:07, Albert Chin wrote: > ltmain.in prints out a warning when it thinks the .la file isn't in > $libdir: > if test "$absdir" != "$libdir"; then > $echo "$modename: warning: \`$deplib' seems to be moved" 1>&2 > fi > > However, if $absdir has "..", and it resolves to

Re: more on serial

2004-03-23 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 22:23, Patrick Welche wrote: > LT_INIT is defined using AC_DEFUN_ONCE. There is no documentation for > this macro in autoconf.texi, and aclocal doesn't know about it, or at > least, it doesn't pick up the fact that as LT_INIT appears in configure.ac, > it should include m4/li

Re: Crosscompiling again...

2004-03-23 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 12:17, Tietz Fabian (AA/ESW1) wrote: > Im trying to crosscompile a c++ shared Library for a Mips target > System using libtool. > Unfortunately linking fails, because of libtool trying > to link against "/usr/lib/libstdc++.so", which is the X86 Version > of the Library, not t

Re: libtool & crosscompile problem

2004-03-23 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 17:08, Pieter Grimmerink wrote: > I have a strange situation with libtool (version 1.4.3), I'm wondering what I > could do to make it work. > This is yet another result of the bug that Libtool would ignore the -L option for non-libtool libraries, and instead pick a library

Re: Linking order

2004-03-23 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 18:05, Matthew Zeits wrote: > I am working on a project that should compile both globally--with prefix > unset so install goes to /usr/local/ and with prefix set to an arbitrary > directory. When the program links, even if I define an -L or an rpath, > it looks to /usr/lo

Re: Linking with relocated libraries

2004-03-23 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 19:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry about the late reply, but here goes... > I have a situation where I'm constructing a filesystem image, and I need > to use the contents of that image to build new packages to be installed > in the image. For example, I have $ROOT, which

Re: Another stable release?

2004-03-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 17:47, Albert Chin wrote: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 03:00:27PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 14:51, Peter O'Gorman wrote: > > > > > I'll probably have some free time toward the end of this month, and am >

Re: Another stable release?

2004-03-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sun, 2004-03-14 at 14:51, Peter O'Gorman wrote: > I'll probably have some free time toward the end of this month, and am > volunteering to roll a release of branch-1-5 if nobody has any objections. > > Would that be 1.5.4 or 1.5.3? > 1.5.4 :-) Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Ha

Re: relink_command quoting bug

2004-02-18 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 13:27, Peter O'Gorman wrote: > Michael Pruett wrote: > | The change you suggested fixed the first problem but not the second. > > We probably need to go through ltmain.in and modify every line containing > pwd we find, then modify every line that uses the vars that were assi

Re: Why doesn't ...

2004-02-03 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 03:40, name wrote: > Why doesn't installation copy libtool.m4 to aclocal? > Assuming you are talking about CVS HEAD (libtool 1.5a, future 1.6 release) this is because libtoolize now copies libtool.m4 from its own data directory into your macro directory. "Your macro directo

Re: GNU Libtool 1.5.2 released

2004-01-29 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 12:00, Peter O'Gorman wrote: > Scott James Remnant wrote: > > | That's actually an Autoconf macro that's failing, unfortunately. It's > | an irritant, but I've not figured out a way of getting around it short > | of overriding AC_M

Re: GNU Libtool 1.5.2 released

2004-01-29 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 01:35, Daniel Reed wrote: > On 2004-01-28T15:59-0000, Scott James Remnant wrote: > ) On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 15:15, Daniel Reed wrote: > ) > Since there does not appear to be any C++ code (.cc, .cxx, .C) in libtool, > ) > would it be possible for the next rel

Re: libtool macros installed in pkgdatadir?

2004-01-28 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 22:26, Albert Chin wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:13:21PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > One day a version of Autoconf will use these, but for now when you run > > aclocal it'll add an "m4_include" line to aclocal.m4 for each o

Re: libtool macros installed in pkgdatadir?

2004-01-28 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 20:29, Braden McDaniel wrote: > Why are the libtool macros being installed to $(pkgdatadir) rather than > $(datadir)/aclocal? > Because aclocal is slowly being deprecated, and will eventually vanish entirely. Managing Autoconf macros really isn't a job for Automake. The n

Re: GNU Libtool 1.5.2 released

2004-01-28 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 15:15, Daniel Reed wrote: > On 2004-01-25T14:47-0000, Scott James Remnant wrote: > ) The Libtool Team is pleased to announce the release of GNU Libtool > ) 1.5.2. > > Since there does not appear to be any C++ code (.cc, .cxx, .C) in libtool, > would it b

Re: libtool 1.5.2 on SGI/IRIX

2004-01-28 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 14:18, Florian Bachmann wrote: > I am trying to produce a 64bit shared library on a IRIX 6.5 (MIPS4) > machine using the GNU toolchain (gcc, autoconf, automake, libtool). > I am configuring gcc to produce 64bit binaries with CC="gcc -mabi=64". > Libtool correctly picks up the

Re: GNU Libtool 1.5.2 released

2004-01-27 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 23:30, Kevin Ryde wrote: > Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-1.5-1.5.2.diff.gz > > This doesn't seem to have the changes to the generated files, > therefore requiring a

GNU Libtool 1.5.2 released

2004-01-25 Thread Scott James Remnant
The Libtool Team is pleased to announce the release of GNU Libtool 1.5.2. GNU Libtool hides the complexity of using shared libraries behind a consistent, portable interface. GNU Libtool ships with GNU libltdl, which hides the comlexity of loading dynamic runtime libraries (modules) behind a consis

Re: libtool-commit ML

2004-01-22 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 13:55, Peter O'Gorman wrote: > Nick Hudson wrote: > > | Is the libtool-commit ML supposed to work anymore? I've not seen a message > | there for sometime now. > > It is broken. > But we do co-ordinate all patches, even trivial ones, on [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- so you can see w

Re: Bug in CVS bootstrap with Automake 1.7

2004-01-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 16:49, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > > > I'm going to see whether we can hack around this, but to be honest, I > > don't see any problem with requiring 1.8 for our bootstrap now -- it > >

Bug in CVS bootstrap with Automake 1.7

2004-01-16 Thread Scott James Remnant
It seems that Automake 1.7 isn't automatically including m4/* in the distribution tarball, I'm not even sure why -- there's code in /usr/bin/automake-1.7 to do just that. I'm going to see whether we can hack around this, but to be honest, I don't see any problem with requiring 1.8 for our bootstra

Re: Bootstrapping Redux.

2004-01-14 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 12:43, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > What about adding m4/obsolete.m4 with: > > AU_DEFUN([AC_LIBTOOL_CONFIG], [AC_LIBTOOL_CONFIG])dnl > AU_DEFUN([AC_LIBTOOL_LINKER_OPTION], [AC_LIBTOOL_LINKER_OPTION])dnl > ... > AU_DEFUN([AC_PROG_EGREP], [AC_PROG_EGREP])dn

Bootstrapping Redux.

2004-01-10 Thread Scott James Remnant
Bootstrapping the new stuff with Automake 1.8 and an older /usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4 still causes the contents of that to be dumped into aclocal.m4 as well as the new m4_include line. This is (still) because at least some of the following m4_defines used to be AC_DEFUNs: AC_LIBTOOL_CO

Re: bootstrapping CVS libtool

2004-01-01 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 15:49, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > Scott James Remnant wrote: > |On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 11:41, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > |> 1: remove $prefix/share/aclocal/l(ibtoo|td)l.m4 of old releases at install > |> time > |> 2: keep copies of the latest versio

Re: libtool audit

2004-01-01 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 12:08, Peter O'Gorman wrote: > Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > | Scott James Remnant wrote: > | We're done! > > Jeez, I didn't even get the chance to start looking! > > Thank you both so much, I'll buy both multiple beers should we ever

Re: libtool/config.status issue on IRIX

2004-01-01 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 00:30, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Joe Orton wrote: > > > > _ACEOF > > > cat foo.out > > > > > > Note that the update adds an extra backslash in front of all the inner > > > double-quotes. > > > > OK, I made those changes to libtool.m4 as below, and can conf

Missing, presumed Dead! Libtool CVS logging via e-mail

2003-12-31 Thread Scott James Remnant
The script and everything under CVSROOT that logged our commits and sent them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] has been lost. Don't suppose anyone kept a copy of this around, and could re-add it to CVSROOT (possibly fixing the broken CVSweb URLs along the way). Otherwise I guess we'd have to use the commit_p

Re: tag inference broken?

2003-12-17 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 23:18, Peter O'Gorman wrote: > Scott James Remnant wrote: > > | On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 15:14, Peter O'Gorman wrote: > |>Looks like it is simply infering too early in link mode. > |> > | > | Yeah, my last patch moved the code to before th

Re: libtool audit

2003-12-17 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 17:23, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > Argh. I am beginning to resent the amount of admin I am doing in what would > otherwise be my hacking time :-( > > It's difficult, tedious and error prone. > By using my own subversion mirror which spanned the compromise, I've been able to m

Re: tag inference broken?

2003-12-07 Thread Scott James Remnant
round the twist? diff -ruNp libtool-CVS~/ChangeLog libtool-CVS/ChangeLog --- libtool-CVS~/ChangeLog 2003-11-30 17:13:29.00000 +0000 +++ libtool-CVS/ChangeLog 2003-12-07 18:59:19.0 + @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +2003-12-07 Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + + * ltmain.in:

Re: avoiding C++, Fortran tags

2003-11-26 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 14:51, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: > i recently swiched to libtool 1.5 and now AC_PROG_LIBTOOL pulls in a > horrendous amount of irrelevant checks for C++ and Fortran. *snip* are > there plans to extend AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to specify which, if any, tags > are to be included/omitted?

Re: bootstrapping CVS libtool

2003-11-26 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 11:41, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > Scott James Remnant wrote: > | This means if you use AC_FOO in m4/libtool.m4 then the first file that > | happens to AC_DEFUN that will get included, even though it's defined > | with m4_define in that same file. > > G

Re: bootstrapping CVS libtool

2003-11-25 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 13:27, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > Scott James Remnant wrote: > | The gotcha is that for some reason aclocal pulls in both m4/libtool.m4 > | AND /usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4 into aclocal.m4 and puts the latter > | last, so its macros get used. > > This mean

Re: bootstrapping CVS libtool

2003-11-25 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 13:24, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: You've just woken up, haven't you? :-) > Scott James Remnant wrote: > | On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 17:36, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > | > | > |>On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Scott James Remnant wrote: > |> > |>>I

Re: bootstrapping CVS libtool

2003-11-24 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 17:36, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > > > > I use Autoconf 2.58 and Automake 1.7 (latest Debian packages, basically) > > to bootstrap and it works just fine. > > The top of libtool's

Re: bootstrapping CVS libtool

2003-11-24 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 16:41, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > I am trying to get the current CVS libtool properly bootstrapped. The > libtool bootstrap script says that GNU autoconf 2.58 and GNU automake > 1.8 are required. There is no such thing as automake 1.8 yet. I > retrieved a package called autom

Re: libtool 1.5 tag woes

2003-11-12 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 20:49, Albert Chin wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 06:59:44PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > I have just upgraded to libtool 1.5 (Debian's package which is taken > > out of CVS) and here are my first experiences. > > HEAD or branch-1-5? I think development is happening on

Re: libtool pre-1.5b tests fail on 9 debian arches

2003-10-23 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 16:36, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 08:04:55PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > >>Robert Millan wrote: > >>>We should start doing that, and I can help. Just requested copyright papers > >&g

Re: [Fwd: Bug#207475: libtool: wrongly hides important compiler output]

2003-10-07 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 16:14, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > Scott James Remnant wrote: > > I can see Sam's point, but I can also see the reason for suppressing one > > of two near-identical compilations. > > How about a -no-suppress option? (see attachment) > Certainly se

Re: libtool pre-1.5b tests fail on 9 debian arches

2003-10-07 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 18:48, Robert Millan wrote: > On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 04:36:47PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > > >>>libtool maintainers: Would you consider giving either Scott or me > > >>>(preferably > > >>>both) with CVS access? That'd help a lot getting libtool in shape for all > > >>>

[Fwd: Bug#207475: libtool: wrongly hides important compiler output]

2003-09-30 Thread Scott James Remnant
Forwarded for discussion purposes ... I can see Sam's point, but I can also see the reason for suppressing one of two near-identical compilations. Scott -Forwarded Message- From: Sam Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Bug#207475: libto

Re: Version numbering

2003-09-30 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 17:58, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > After the next cron web update, please read: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/contribute.html > > and give me your feedback... > Makes sense to me, seems to cover everything well enough to avoid any confusion about what kind of re

Re: Version numbering

2003-09-30 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 10:15, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > > I didn't understand your proposal, but I hope you are not > > planning to make 2.2 < 2.3a < 2.3. That would be counter > > intuitive. IMHO any numbering scheme ought to work with `ls -v'. > > Actually, that is

Re: Version numbering

2003-09-30 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 09:31, Bernd Jendrissek wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 09:33:29AM +0200, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > > etc. Keeping odd version for development ensure people cannot > > mis-sort versions with letters with others. It could also gives > > some feeling of sense to accustome

Re: libtool pre-1.5b tests fail on 9 debian arches

2003-09-29 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 20:46, Robert Millan wrote: > The libtool upstream maintainers are preparing a new 1.5b release. On their > behalf I've recently attempted to test a snapshot from CVS branch-1-5 on all > architectures Debian supports (or pretends to support) that I had access to. > Actually

Re: libtool pre-1.5b tests fail on 9 debian arches

2003-09-27 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 21:46, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 07:26:20PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > Updating to any later version of Libtool is the same amount of work, > > whether it be the Debian-patched version or not. Most of the time, when > >

Re: libtool pre-1.5b tests fail on 9 debian arches

2003-09-27 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 19:46, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 04:30:15AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 06:06, Robert Millan wrote: > > > It's not the Debian libtool package which is (generaly) used by upstream > > > main

Re: libtool pre-1.5b tests fail on 9 debian arches

2003-09-26 Thread Scott James Remnant
(Removed debian lists from Cc, I don't see how this is relevant to the porters) On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 06:06, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 02:36:13AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > Use the Debian libtool package, not only do I currently track CVS rather &g

Re: Building .so files only.

2003-08-28 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 00:49, Stephen Torri wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 01:50, Schleicher Ralph (LLI) wrote: > > > ! If the @samp{-static} option is given, then only a @samp{.o} file is > ! built, even if libtool was configured with @samp{--disable-static}. > > This sounds logically confusing.

libtool.info licence

2003-08-22 Thread Scott James Remnant
The libtool documentation, as contained in libtool.info, is currently licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). As you are probably aware, there is significant opinion that this licence does not meet the requirements of the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG). This means that t

Is libtool 1.4 dead and buried forever?

2003-07-30 Thread Scott James Remnant
Subject line says is all really, I ask because I've cleaned up the Debian libtool 1.4 package and got a small handful of patches which could be useful if anyone forsees a libtool 1.4.4 coming up at any point in the future. If not no worries, a couple of these patches need to be applied to 1.5 too

Re: Is libtool being maintained at all?

2003-07-06 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 02:40, Charles Wilson wrote: > Scott James Remnant wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 11:18, Dalibor Topic wrote: > > >>http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libt/libtool/libtool_1.4.3-10.diff.gz > >>etc. > >> > > > > As

Re: Is libtool being maintained at all?

2003-07-06 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 11:18, Dalibor Topic wrote: > Thanks, for an outsider like me, it's hard to understand a project's > internal social structure. I've got one more question, though: how do > you handle external patches from distributors? Do you hunt down their > patches trying to integrate

Re: [Fwd: libtool munges '-(' linker options.]

2003-03-08 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 17:09, Albert Chin wrote: > On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 04:42:42PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > Certain applications require the linker flags --start-group > > and --end-group (abbreviated "-(" and "-)" ) in order to > > reso

[Fwd: Bug#179323: libtool - fails to relink cross compiled libs]

2003-02-02 Thread Scott James Remnant
/libtool --mode=relink powerpc-linux-gcc -Wall -O2 -pipe -g3 -ggdb -o |libtuxbox-ucodes.la -rpath /usr/lib libucodes.lo ../libmd5sum/libtuxbox-md5sum.la |@inst_prefix_dir@)" bastian -- Another Armenia, Belgium ... the weak innocents who always seem to be located on a natural invasion route.

Re: [Fwd: libtool: SIGSEGV with ltdl.c (tryall_dlopen_module)]

2002-12-15 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 17:10, Albert Chin wrote: > On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 04:45:27PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > This is actually two "problems" he's fixing, the first of which > > definitely looks like a good fix -- the second of which (the third hunk

[Fwd: libtool: SIGSEGV with ltdl.c (tryall_dlopen_module)]

2002-12-15 Thread Scott James Remnant
alternatives (foo.so etc) are not in the module search path. */ - if (handle || ((errors > 0) && file_not_found ())) + if (handle || ((errors > 0) && !file_not_found ())) { LT_DLFREE (tmp); return handle; --lrZ03NoBR/3+SXJZ-- >8&

[Fwd: libtool munges '-(' linker options.]

2002-12-15 Thread Scott James Remnant
; -o "$flag" = "--start-group" ; then + deplibs="$deplibs --start-group" + continue; + fi + if test "$flag" = "-)" -o "$flag" = "--end-group" ; then + deplibs="$deplibs --end-group&quo