Re: support standalone libltdl [libtool--gary--1.0--patch-23]

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Noah Misch wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 07:25:00PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>
> > On my machine, several of the above files are installed the same second.
> > So, on the client machine where libtoolize is executed, they will have
> > the same time.  If libtoolize were to update time stamps, then it would
> > need to know the order (and could _not_ infer it from timestamps).  But
> > _then_ it would not matter at all which time the installed files had
> > anyway.  Not at all.
> >
> > So in that case you could just leave it all to libtoolize to do the
> > ordering.  My thought so far was, that it's sufficient to do the
> > ordering in "make install" as I've mentioned above, and leave the "tar
> > hack" in libtoolize.
>
>
> Would adding AM_MAINTAINER_MODE to the libltdl `configure.ac' usefully help
> shield users from these time stamp problems?

Yes I think it would.  The question then is: is it okay for libltdl to
randomly autoreconf bits of itself the first time it is called with
--enable-maintainer-mode?  We need to see whether Ralf runs into 
timestamp problems on the patch to follow mine before we worry about it 
too much though...

Cheers,
        Gary.
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