Re: autotools versions and WORKING_LIBOBJ_SUPPORT

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 08:26:50PM CET:
> * Eric Blake wrote on Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 05:40:23AM CET:
> > According to Ralf Wildenhues on 3/21/2006 1:07 PM:
> > > 
> > > +case `($AUTOCONF --version) 2>/dev/null` in
> > > +  *\ 2.[5-9][0-9]* | *\ [3-9].[0-9]*)
> > 
> > Typo - this makes the cutoff point 2.50+ instead of 2.60+ as advertised...
> > 
> > > +  case `($AUTOMAKE --version) 2>/dev/null` in
> > > +    *\ 1.1[0-9]* | *\ [2-9].[0-9]*)
> > 
> > And what if we ever get to automake 1.20 before 2.0?
> 
> D'oh, twice.
> 
> How about this?  I think we can safely assume users of the CVS versions
> will have updated as well (saves me some typing anyway..).

This sucks.  I sent this three days ago, and it has still has not
appeared on the list.  This develops to be a real problem for
communication.  :-(

I have taken liberty to just apply the patch for now.  Review would
still be nice..

Cheers,
Ralf

>       * bootstrap: Enable `WORKING_LIBOBJ_SUPPORT' if we detect
>       Autoconf-2.60+ and Automake-1.10+, or CVS versions.
> 
> Index: bootstrap
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/libtool/libtool/bootstrap,v
> retrieving revision 1.76
> diff -u -r1.76 bootstrap
> --- bootstrap 23 Jan 2006 18:33:57 -0000      1.76
> +++ bootstrap 22 Mar 2006 07:42:26 -0000
> @@ -27,6 +27,8 @@
>  SHELL=${CONFIG_SHELL-/bin/sh}
>  export SHELL
>  : ${AUTORECONF=autoreconf}
> +: ${AUTOCONF=autoconf}
> +: ${AUTOMAKE=automake}
>  : ${AUTOM4TE=autom4te}
>  : ${MAKE=make}
>  : ${GREP=grep}
> @@ -89,6 +91,13 @@
>  # Workaround for missing LIBOBJDIR support in Autoconf 2.59, Automake 1.9.6:
>  # Have symlinks of the libobj files in top source dir.
>  # Set WORKING_LIBOBJ_SUPPORT=: when calling bootstrap if you have fixed 
> tools.
> +case `($AUTOCONF --version) 2>/dev/null` in
> +  *\ 2.59[c-z]* | *\ 2.[6-9][0-9]* | *\ [3-9].[0-9]*)
> +  case `($AUTOMAKE --version) 2>/dev/null` in
> +    *\ 1.9[a-z]* | *\ 1.1[0-9]* | *\ 1.[2-9][0-9]* | *\ [2-9].[0-9]*)
> +      WORKING_LIBOBJ_SUPPORT=: ;;
> +  esac ;;
> +esac
>  for file in argz.c lt__dirent.c lt__strl.c; do
>    rm -f $file
>    $WORKING_LIBOBJ_SUPPORT || $LN_S libltdl/$file $file