Re: remove deprecated stuff from ltmain.in

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> This patch removes the inferring of the mode and the -allow-undefined
> flag (well, it makes them errors).
>
> Is it time? Okay to apply?

Yikes!  It shows how long it is since I was paying attention, that I didn't 
even know that mode inference had been deprecated :-/

For -allow-undefined: Yes, please commit, but add a NEWS entry to the patch.

For mode inference: Not as it stands, I think there should be a convenient 
shorthand for using libtool at the command line.  I suggest that if the mode 
is not specified, the first argument to libtool will be interpreted as the 
mode.  Better yet, a left anchored unique substring from a valid mode name 
should be accepted (add this to ltmain.in just before option parsing proper):

    case $1 in
    compile|compil|compi|comp|com|co|o)
      shift; set -- --mode=compile ${1+"$@"}
      ;;
    execute|execut|execu|exec|exe|ex|e)
      shift; set -- --mode=execute ${1+"$@"}
      ;;
    install|instal|insta|inst|ins|in|i)
      shift; set -- --mode=install ${1+"$@"}
      ;;
    link|lin|li|l)
      shift; set -- --mode=link ${1+"$@"}
      ;;
    uninstall|uninstal|uninsta|uninst|unins|unin|uni|un|u)
      shift; set -- --mode=uninstall ${1+"$@"}
      ;;
    esac

Allow abit of time for people to disagree with me, otherwise I agree to the 
commit of the other part of your patch if the case statement above is also 
included.  Oh, and NEWS will need updating again.

There are two separate commits in this mail, don't forget :-)

Cheers,
        Gary.
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