Re: 10-gary-rewrite-libtoolize.patch

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 03:55:55PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
>
> > +* Requires Automake 1.8.
>
> Is this true?  AFAICT the libtool packaging uses 1.8, but Libtool
> itself doesn't require 1.8.  People should still be able to use
> it with any version of Automake (including none) shouldn't they?


I was over-excited.  I'll remove that line before I commit.

> Also, I'm wondering if there is any reason to require 1.8 in the
> package itself.  I've just removed the top-level "AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS =
> 1.7a" to try a build with 1.7.7 and it worked fine.  Am I missing
> something?

Nope, I'll reduce that to 1.7... that might be too conservative, but I
don't want to set it too low and get lots of bug reports from people who use 
ancient Automakes.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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