Re: m4/bootstrap

[Eric Blake]

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According to Bruno Haible on 11/2/2006 6:20 AM:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>> - Install Libtool.  Fix your $automake_prefix/share/aclocal/dirlist file
>>   so that aclocal finds libtool's files, and $PATH so that it contains
>>   libtoolize.  CVS Libtool has means in place to tell apart version
>>   inconsistencies.
>>
>> I'm not in favor of merging libtool into gnulib, and I would prefer if
>> you would not "force" CVS users.  The added inconvenience would make me
>> stop testing CVS M4 with CVS Libtool.
> 
> Eric, if you agree with that, how about documenting it in the bootstrap
> script?

Adding documentation is fine.  However, libtool 1.5.22 is not.  A checkout
of branch-1_4 does not require libtool at all.  And a checkout of CVS head
on m4 requires CVS head of libtool (currently named 2.1a, but it may be
renamed 2.0 when released), because M4 uses libltdl to load a module that
in turn uses libltdl to load other modules, and there has not been any
prior snapshot of libtool that supports this usage pattern.

I installed this instead:

2006-11-02  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>

        * bootstrap: Update bootstrap requirement wording.
        Reported by Bruno Haible.

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Index: bootstrap
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/m4/m4/bootstrap,v
retrieving revision 1.41
diff -u -p -r1.41 bootstrap
--- bootstrap   27 Oct 2006 21:10:15 -0000      1.41
+++ bootstrap   2 Nov 2006 13:36:44 -0000
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #! /bin/sh
 
-# bootstrap (GNU M4) version 2006-10-27
+# bootstrap (GNU M4) version 2006-11-02
 # Written by Gary V. Vaughan  <address@hidden>
 
 # Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@@ -37,11 +37,13 @@
 # locate the right tools:
 #   AUTOPOINT, AUTORECONF, AWK, GNULIB_TOOL, RM, SED, WGET
 
-# This script bootstraps a CVS checkout of GNU M4 by correctly
-# calling out to parts of the GNU Build Platform.  Currently this
-# requires GNU Gettext 0.16 or better, and Autoconf 2.60 or better
-# Automake 1.10a or better, and bleeding edge CVS snapshots of
-# Libtool and Gnulib.
+# This script bootstraps a CVS checkout of GNU M4 by correctly calling
+# out to parts of the GNU Build Platform.  Currently this requires GNU
+# Gettext 0.16 or better, Autoconf 2.60 or better, a CVS snapshot of
+# Automake 1.10a or better, a CVS snapshot of Libtool 2.1a or better,
+# and the latest CVS checkout of Gnulib.  Libtool must be installed;
+# either with the same --prefix as automake, or made accessible to
+# aclocal's search path via $AUTOMAKE_prefix/share/aclocal/dirlist.
 
 # Report bugs to <address@hidden>