Re: 1.5 release

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Alexandre,

* Alexandre Oliva wrote on Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 12:42:42AM CEST:
> On Apr 23, 2005, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > -New in 1.5.15a: 2005-??-??; CVS version 1.5.15a, Libtool team:
> > +New in 1.5.16: 2005-04-23; CVS version 1.5.15a, Libtool team:
> 
> Erhm...  If this is going out soon, could we perhaps get the patch I
> posted for libtool.m4 in, to avoid configuring CXX and F77 in every
> single libtool script, part of packages that only care about C?

I wanted to do the release today, but I will at least wait for the
Solaris feedback now.

AC_PROVIDE_IFELSE is not in Autoconf 2.50 (AFAICT it's in 2.52).  I
don't know if we left its usability through other patches already, but
we do still advertise 2.50 compatibility.

Also, this has been fixed properly in branch-2-0 and above.

I have not tested your patch, but would feel the need to do so quite a
bit if I were to put it in.  (I have wondered whether to simply answer
"not strictly a bug", but that would be making it a bit too easy on my
side, I guess.)

So, I'm unsure about this patch.

Regards,
Ralf

> Index: ChangeLog
> from  Alexandre Oliva  <address@hidden>
> 
>       * libtool.m4 (_LT_AC_TAGCONFIG): Don't bring in CXX and F77 unless
>       the corresponding AC_PROG_ macro was provided.