Re: 1.5 release

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Alexandre Oliva wrote on Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 09:27:24PM CEST:
> On Apr 24, 2005, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> We have a fallback AC_PROVIDE_IFELSE early in libtool.m4, which
> enables us to use it even in earlier autoconf.  And we actually do use
> it in AC_PROG_LIBTOOL.

Whoops.  Blush.  :-)

> > 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.)
> 
> I'm fine with such a decision.  I was just surprised when a co-worker
> reported this bug to me, and it took me a while to even admit this was
> possible :-)

Oh well.  I'm sorry then for being dumb.  OTOH, I really did not want to
start testing _again_, and people have been waiting for this release
because of the Solaris regression.

Will have a look at it after I'm done forward-porting the couple of
patches which are in branch-1-5 only ATM.  Unless the other maintainers
beat me for it, I will still work on bugs in all three branches,
getting 2.0 out should be the prime objective, however.

Regards,
Ralf