Re: [shell functions, was RE: solving of name conflicts inincluded.a]

2002-11-15 Thread Akim Demaille
Bruce> Bootstrap-Bash could use a frozen version of configure. This means freezing at least one copy of Bash. Doable. But I still think it might be a bit too soon. I don't see the urgency to move to shell functions, but I do see how they can simplify our lives.

Re: [shell functions, was RE: solving of name conflicts inincluded.a]

2002-11-15 Thread Tom Lord
> I don't see the urgency to move to shell functions, but I do > see how they can simplify our lives. Uh... "if not now, when"? Seriously, there's _always_ commercial incentive to do a half assed job and the _real_ ego competition is to reject that incentive and do a good jo

Autoconf 2.56 is released

2002-11-15 Thread Akim Demaille
The Autoconf team -- Akim, Alexandre, Jim, Paul, and Tom -- is happy to annonce the birth of Autoconf 2.56, aka 2.55 with a packaging problem fixed. - Why should I upgrade from 2.54? A few bug fixes, improved portability, no known incompatibility with 2.54 and 2.55, forthcoming Gettext release

Re: [shell functions, was RE: solving of name conflicts in included.a]

2002-11-15 Thread Max Bowsher
Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bruce> Bootstrap-Bash could use a frozen version of configure. > This means freezing at least one copy of Bash. Doable. What about someone (probably a user of a machine that actually needs it) writing a shell function inliner? ltmain.sh could be postpr

Version numbering change on IRIX

2002-11-15 Thread Rainer Orth
Robert, I just noticed this change 2002-10-23 Robert Boehne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ltmain.in: Do not add 1 to the version under IRIX, it is not necessary. in CVS libtool. I couldn't find any rationale for it in the archives, and fear that it might be a dangerous incompatible cha

RE: Version numbering change on IRIX

2002-11-15 Thread Boehne, Robert
Title: RE: Version numbering change on IRIX Rainer, This change was a long time coming, so many people have complained about having libx.so.1 under Solars/Linux and having libx.so.2 under IRIX. Adding 1 to the version isn't necessary, I've looked everywhere I could think of to find out why t

RE: Version numbering change on IRIX

2002-11-15 Thread Rainer Orth
Robert, > This change was a long time coming, so many people have complained > about having libx.so.1 under Solars/Linux and having libx.so.2 under IRIX. > Adding 1 to the version isn't necessary, I've looked everywhere I could > think of to find out why this was done in the first place, but found

Re: [shell functions]

2002-11-15 Thread Christopher Currie
On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 02:18:35PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Bash uses configure. > > And so does ash :-( which was my first thought for working around this > problem. On the other hand, is it so terrible to ask that those who > wish to continue using systems wi

Re: [shell functions]

2002-11-15 Thread Bruce Korb
Christopher Currie wrote: > I don't have a problem with libtool using shell > functions; all POSIX compliant shells are supposed to support them. The > danger here is that if we make libtool dependent on some specific shell > feature, do we not make any software that uses libtool dependent on that

Re: Autoconf 2.55 is released!

2002-11-15 Thread Bill Wendling
Also sprach Akim Demaille: } } ** autom4te } } - Supports --cache, and --no-cache. } } - ~/.autom4te.cfg makes it possible to disable the caching mechanism } (autom4te.cache). See `Customizing autom4te' in the documentation. } This doesn't work. [dangermouse self_installed] ls -ACF autoconf

Re: Version numbering change on IRIX

2002-11-15 Thread Steve M. Robbins
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 05:34:33PM +0100, Rainer Orth wrote: > Robert, > > > This change was a long time coming, so many people have complained > > about having libx.so.1 under Solars/Linux and having libx.so.2 under IRIX. > > Adding 1 to the version isn't necessary, I've looked everywhere I could

Re: Autoconf 2.55 is released!

2002-11-15 Thread Richard Stallman
Congratulations! Are you handing out cigars? ;-). ___ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool