F9x and unsupported FC

Greetings, I found Gary Kumfert's message , in which he says Why did support for FC disappear from libtool.m4 in my "upgrade" from 1.5.4 to 1.5.10? Aha! This would be why I can't use F9x compilers with libtool, then... Ralf Wilden

Testsuite failures on Cygwin with ECHO=printf (was: Re: Speeding up libtool)

Ralf Wildenhues wrote: [...] Yes. We recently identified that an audit of libtool.m4 for wrong use of $ECHO is necessary. [details left out] Another question: How did you find those bugs? I.e., were they exposed by the Libtool testsuite? If not, how can we trigger them? The testsuite triggers th

Re: Speeding up libtool

Robert Ögren writes: > 2. configure.in did not have AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL which now is required > for OBJDUMP to be set. Hmm. Wasn't AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL supposed to be deprecated and unnecessary? Or was it just that at some point it was de facto unnecessary but never officially deprecated, and n