Re: 9-gary-reduce-dist-size.patch

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:

> All:
>
> The attached patch reduces the size of libtool-1.5a.tar.gz as created by 'make
> dist' from over 3 million bytes to under 2.26 million bytes... about a 25% 
> saving.
>
> More importantly it paves the way for a move to modern autoconf and automake,
> so you will need up to the minute CVS releases of both to bootstrap libtool
> correctly if you apply it locally.
>
> Okay to apply?

I am agreeable to this *IF* you agree to release a libtool 1.5.1 to
satisfy users who need fixes to 1.5 while we are waiting for the new
autoconf and automake to appear.

Bob
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