Re: ltmain.sh problem

[Gary V. Vaughan]

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David Relson wrote:
| On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 16:05:06 +0000
| "Gary V. Vaughan" <address@hidden> wrote:
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| As the bad ltmain.sh is distributed with sylpheed-claws, I'm CC'ing this
| message to that list, in hopes of hearing from the person who included
| the problematic ltmain.sh with the tarball.

ltmain.sh doesn't have the variable declarations, they are generated as the
start of the libtool script, which then has ltmain.sh tacked on the end.

| I'd try building 1.5.0a myself except that 1.4.3 is the newest version
| available from the gnu mirrors and my attempts to check it out from cvs
| also give me 1.4.3.  Have you any suggestions?

It works for me:

$ lftp -c 'open hftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool
- - ls' | grep 'libtool-.*.tar.gz$'
- -rw-r--r--         226k  1997-07-10 00:00  libtool-1.0.tar.gz
- -rw-r--r--         271k  1998-03-09 00:00  libtool-1.1.tar.gz
- -rw-r--r--         271k  1998-03-20 00:00  libtool-1.2.tar.gz
- -rw-r--r--         520k  1999-05-25 00:00  libtool-1.3.2.tar.gz
- -rw-r--r--         520k  1999-07-06 00:00  libtool-1.3.3.tar.gz
- -rw-r--r--         523k  1999-12-16 00:00  libtool-1.3.4.tar.gz
- -rw-r--r--         527k  2000-05-28 00:00  libtool-1.3.5.tar.gz
- -rw-r--r--         516k  1999-04-29 00:00  libtool-1.3.tar.gz
- -rw-r--r--        1104k  2001-09-03 00:00  libtool-1.4.1.tar.gz
- -rw-r--r--        1157k  2001-09-11 00:00  libtool-1.4.2.tar.gz
- -rw-r--r--        1138k  2003-11-27 14:48  libtool-1.4.3.tar.gz
- -rw-r--r--        1072k  2001-04-26 00:00  libtool-1.4.tar.gz
- -rw-r--r--        2751k  2003-11-27 14:48  libtool-1.5.tar.gz

$ cvs -d:pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/libtool login
Logging in to :pserver:address@hidden:2401/cvsroot/libtool
CVS password: <Press Return>
$ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/libtool co libtool
...
$ grep AC_INIT libtool/configure.ac
AC_INIT([libtool], [1.5a], address@hidden)

HTH,
        Gary.
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