Re: a libtool.m4 patch for use with autoconf-2.50

[Gary V . Vaughan]

On Thursday 14 June 2001  4:07 pm, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The libtool.m4 from libtool-1.4 doesn't work perfectly with autoconf-2.50:
> the "-o file.lo" test reports "no" instead of "yes" as it did with
> autoconf-2.13. config.log shows the following lines:
>
> configure:3952: checking if gcc supports -c -o file.lo
> configure:3974: gcc -c -g -O2 -c -o conftest.lo  conftest.c >&5
> configure:3977: $? = 0
> configure:3980: test -s conftest.o
> configure:3983: $? = 1
>
> It is wrong to expect the existence of conftest.o after using "-o
> conftest.lo".
>
> Here is a fix.

Cool.  Thanks.  I just finished committing patches to support autoconf-2.50 
fully in the HEAD revision too.  It is nice not to have to jump between 
versions of autoconf when testing on branch-1-4 and HEAD of libtool.

Applied to branch-1-4.  HEAD no longer has this test, since PIC files are 
compileed in  a subdirectory and then moved afterwards now.

> It also fixes that the result of this test is not displayed,
> a simple typo.

Doh!  Thanks again.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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