FYI: Bug#152138: automake1.6: automake no longer invokes libtoolize

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Zander <address@hidden> writes:

 >>>>>> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> writes:
 adl> This change was made on purpose.  The job of
 adl> Automake is to produce Makefile.in, not to run things like
 adl> libtoolize; this responsability has been transfered to
 adl> autoreconf (from the Autoconf package).

 Stephen> And this would be documented where?

Such a change ought to be listed in NEWS.  Unfortunately it was omitted.

I'm committing this on HEAD and branch-1-6.

2002-07-08  Alexandre Duret-Lutz  <address@hidden>

        * NEWS (New in 1.6): Mention that libtoolize is no longer run
        by automake.

Index: NEWS
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/automake/automake/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.174.2.4
diff -u -r1.174.2.4 NEWS
--- NEWS        14 Jun 2002 07:24:23 -0000      1.174.2.4
+++ NEWS        8 Jul 2002 19:56:53 -0000
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@
 
 New in 1.6:
 * Autoconf 2.52 is required.
+* automake no longer run libtoolize.
+  This is the job of autoreconf (from GNU Autoconf).
 * `dist' generates all the archive flavors, as did `dist-all'.
 * `dist-gzip' generates the Gzip tar file only.
 * Combining Automake Makefile conditionals no longer lead to a combinatorial

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Alexandre Duret-Lutz