generated libtool on debian/unstable always broken

2003-01-28 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi, I have a debian/unstable system which consistently always generates broken libtool, from every package I tried (a lot of them). I tried reinstalling all packages which could be more or less related (libtool, auto*, libc6, *utils, sed, etc. a few hundreds packages !) or changing automake versi

Re: [PATCH] Re: Problem on rs6000-ibm-aix4.3.2.0 (Fortran) -DPIC

2003-01-28 Thread Robert Boehne
Albert, The intent here is to satisfy those who want -DPIC but remove all macro definition by default. I agree with the suggestion earlier in this thread of adding a new macro AC_LIBTOOL_PICDEF([PIC]) and we'll plan on this for the release after the next one. Thanks, Robert Albert Chin wrote:

RE: generated libtool on debian/unstable always broken

2003-01-28 Thread Dan Kegel
Hah. I bet it's a quoting problem; it seems newer autotools silently f**ks up on improperly quoted sources that worked fine with older autotools. IMHO this is a usability bug in newer autotools. I believe one or the other of the following patches dealt with this particular problem for one packa