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Re: aclocal flags are a pain
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Behdad Esfahbod |
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Re: aclocal flags are a pain |
Date: |
Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:50:43 -0400 |
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Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Behdad Esfahbod wrote on Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 08:40:31AM CEST:
>> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>>> Not sure what you're after here. The tools themselves will bail out
>>> anyway if they are too old (discounting automake 1.4 here). What's
>>> the gain of having autoreconf bail out?
>> Right. May have been old cruft for automake 1.4. I also see that libtoolize
>> doesn't do the check. Then again, the AC_PROG_LIBTOOL does not take a
>> version either, but for some reason we needed to add a check. I just
>> pass [1.4] to my AC_PROG_LIBTOOL and use the same shell function to
>> extract and enforce that version in autogen.sh.
>
> Please get accustomed to not being in 2006 any more,
I'd love to... But even my fellow co-maintainers use stupidly old-fashioned
Debian systems. Think autoconf 2.58...
> and use LT_INIT and
> LT_PREREQ from Libtool 2.2.x. Do NOT pass arguments to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL:
> the API did not define them, which pretty much amounts to: we can extend
> the API later to have them have some meaning. In fact, that has already
> happened.
Umm, this one I can fix, yeah. Thanks.
behdad
> Cheers,
> Ralf
>