Re: [PATCH] bootstrap: accommodate older libtool

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake wrote:
> RHEL 5 still ships with libtool 1.5.22, where libtoolize lacks the
> --install option but has that behavior by default.  And gnulib's
> DEPENDENCIES file states that we still support that old of libtool
> as our minimum version.
>
> * build-aux/bootstrap (use_libtool): Cater to libtool 1.5.22.
> Reported by Daniel P. Berrange.
...
> +# libtoolize 1.9b added the --install option; but we support back
> +# to libtoolize 1.5.22, where the install action was default.
>  if test $use_libtool = 1; then
> -  echo "running: $LIBTOOLIZE --copy --install"
> -  $LIBTOOLIZE --copy --install
> +  install=
> +  case $($LIBTOOLIZE --help) in
> +    *--install*) install=--install ;;
> +  esac
> +  echo "running: $LIBTOOLIZE $install --copy"
> +  $LIBTOOLIZE $install --copy

Thanks.  That looks fine.