Re: [PATCH] Add alias for obsoleted AC_LIBTOOL_RC macro.

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Charles Wilson wrote on Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 05:40:40PM CEST:
> lt~obsolete.m4 supplies only empty, non-functional aliases for old,
> public libtool macros that have been removed.  It currently has this:
> 
> m4_ifndef([AC_LIBTOOL_RC],              [AC_DEFUN([AC_LIBTOOL_RC])])
> 
> Can that line stay, or should it be removed, now that
> libltdl/m4/libtool.m4 will provide a non-empty, functional alias for
> AC_LIBTOOL_RC?

It can be removed, but only if you add another line for it a few lines
below your other change in libtool.m4, at:

dnl aclocal-1.4 backwards compatibility: 
dnl AC_DEFUN([AC_LIBTOOL_CXX], []) 
dnl AC_DEFUN([AC_LIBTOOL_F77], []) 
dnl AC_DEFUN([AC_LIBTOOL_FC], []) 
dnl AC_DEFUN([AC_LIBTOOL_GCJ], []) 

> I dug thru the git log, but I really could not figure
> out why this was put in lt~obsolete in the first place, instead of
> treated like the other AC_LIBTOOL_{lang} macros...

I don't know.

Cheers,
Ralf