Re: installable gnulib library

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Gary,

* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 05:48:04AM CEST:
> I had to autoreconf to get rid of a ton of spurious configure time errors
> on my Mac... oddly, the first autoreconf threw up a ton of unset AC_LANG
> warnings, but when I reran autorecong to log them for later investigation
> - they disappeared.
> 
> ...ah, that's because autoreconf is still running aclocal before libtoolize,
> Wow!, I thought that had been fixed a long time ago.  It kinda-sorta works
> because the libtool macros are m4_included from the generated aclocal.m4,
> and libtoolize overwrites the out-of-date libtool macro files before
> autoconf picks them up.  Oh well... aclocal is going away eventually anyway.

autoreconf runs aclocal to find out by tracing whether AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
is used, then runs libtoolize if needed, then runs aclocal again if
needed.  I think that is just about the right way to do it, barring
extra warnings.

I haven't looked at your recently posted tracing script for whether that
does this much differently, but I'm guessing not.

Cheers,
Ralf