* Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 03:20:22PM CET:
> According to Ralf Wildenhues on 11/2/2006 6:56 AM:
> >
> >> At one point, it did. But I wondered why we were invoking libtoolize
> >> prior to autoreconf, when autoreconf reinvokes libtoolize, and patches
> >> were made to libtoolize an
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According to Ralf Wildenhues on 11/2/2006 6:56 AM:
Hi Ralf,
>
>> At one point, it did. But I wondered why we were invoking libtoolize
>> prior to autoreconf, when autoreconf reinvokes libtoolize, and patches
>> were made to libtoolize and autoconf
* Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 02:41:41PM CET:
> According to Ralf Wildenhues on 11/2/2006 6:33 AM:
> > By the way, M4's bootstrap script could just as well invoke
> > libtoolize --ltdl=ltdl --install --copy --force
> At one point, it did. But I wondered why we were invoking libtool
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According to Ralf Wildenhues on 11/2/2006 6:33 AM:
Hi Ralf, Bruno,
>> ! # (either installed with the same --prefix as Automake, or made accessible
>> ! # to aclocal's search path through $AUTOMAKE_PREFIX/share/aclocal/dirlist),
>> ! # and bleeding ed
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* Bruno Haible wrote on Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 02:20:31PM CET:
>
> # This script bootstraps a CVS checkout of GNU M4 by correctly
> # calling out to parts of the GNU Build Platform. Currently this
> ! # requires GNU Autoconf 2.60, GNU Automake 1.9.6, GNU Libtool 1.5.22
IIRC CVS HEAD M4 does
Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> - Install Libtool. Fix your $automake_prefix/share/aclocal/dirlist file
> so that aclocal finds libtool's files, and $PATH so that it contains
> libtoolize. CVS Libtool has means in place to tell apart version
> inconsistencies.
>
> I'm not in favor of merging libt
Hello Bruno, Eric,
* Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 06:55:53AM CET:
> According to Bruno Haible on 11/1/2006 1:07 PM:
> >
> > When I invoke "./bootstrap -p no" in the savannah m4 CVS (HEAD), I get
> > finally
[...]
> > autoreconf: running: autoconf --force
> > configure:5222: error: po
ase candidate to
alpha.gnu.org), the distro will be self-contained; so this issue only
affects people bootstrapping from CVS. I'm not sure whether this is a
libtool limitation, or how best to address it in the m4 bootstrap script.
Maybe someone else can suggest some ideas?
>
> What do
