Re: libtool--devo--1.0--patch-97

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> > Clearly something is wrong because I just re-bootstrapped using Automake
> > 1.9 and the latest libtool and it took just a few seconds. I then ran a
> > VPATH configure and build and that just took a few seconds as well.
> > Testing takes the same time as before, so I guess testing is still ok.
>
> Did you miss a :-) or is there actually something wrong (other than not
> needing your 3.6GHz cpu anymore)?

Dry humor becomes completely ineffective with the addition of a :-)

> Another side effect of this patch (aside from not needing to bootstrap
> anywhere near as often) is that when you 'make check' the Makefiles in the
> test directories will rerun automake et. al. if necessary, so a lot of
> the same work needs to be done, only now it happens during make check.
>
> Obviously, if you don't yet have ltmain.sh, or Makefiles in the test tree,
> you'll still have to bootstrap...

There has been a sudden improvement on the order of at least several 
orders of magnitude for libtool maintainers or for those who want to 
give CVS libtool a try.

There are still a few rough edges, but the minimum level of effort 
required to assist with maintaining libtool has been substantially 
reduced.

Bob
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