[bug-libunistring] Re: GNU libunistring 0.9 released

[Bruno Haible]

Hello Ralf,

> BTW, the fixaclocal thing you're using in libunistring and gettext
> should not be necessary any more with Automake 1.10.1 or newer, where
> a mismatched autoconf version will only cause a warning, but not an
> error any more

Good to hear this! But personally, I also don't want to see this warning
any more: it reminds me some nightmares and frustrating experiences. And
automake-1.10 is still the installed version on some machines I have
access to.

> Then, I'm sure you're aware of it, but a sizeable part of the
> compilation process will not run in parallel even with 'make -j'.

No, I wasn't aware of it. "make -j" is not a priority for me. But you are
welcome to send patches for supporting it.

> Then, with a VPATH build from git, the libunistring.sym file is updated
> in the build tree but searched in the source tree, here's part of the
> make output:
> ...
> join: ../../libunistring/lib/libunistring.sym: No such file or directory

Fixed. Thanks for having reported this.

Bruno