Re: [PATCH] solve my libtool 1.5 tag woes

[Gary V. Vaughan]

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Scott James Remnant wrote:
| On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 15:22, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
|
|
|>Paolo Bonzini wrote:
|>|  > > This patch...
|>|  >
|>|  > Which patch? :-)
|>|
|>| This patch.
|>|
|>| I-should-attach-the-files-before-writing-the-content-Paolo
|>
|>Okay, now that you've reminded me:
|>
|>This patch doesn't impact the operation of the rest of libtool, so I have no
|>objection to it in principle.  However, I'd like to see it documented (ideally
|>with an example of it's usage pattern), and a NEWS entry, and a ChangeLog 
entry.
|>
|
| Is there a way to clean this up somewhat, right now it's just a list of
| copy & paste lines to set all the tag variables.  Couldn't a loop of
| somesort be used here instead?

Yes.  I'm planning on adding a tag variable registration macro to build an m4
list of tagged variables, along with their quoting requirements to clean up
the loops in AC_LIBTOOL_CONFIG.  We can also clean up AC_LIBTOOL_TAGS at the
same time.

| I'm just thinking of making it easier for when we add a new tag
| variable.

I'm right there with you!

Cheers,
        Gary.
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