Re: [Patch-gnuradio] make configure.ac work with libtool 2.2

[Eric Blossom]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 04:53:53PM -0400, Don Ward wrote:
> Libtool 2.2 appears to correctly handle interlibrary dependencies on Cygwin 
> and MinGW.  With libtool 2.2, we no longer need to apply patches to 
> Makefiles before building on these systems.

That's great news Don!

> Using libtool 2.2 with the current configure.ac produces many lines of 
> warnings when the newly-deprecated AC_PROG_LIBTOOL macro is used in 
> conjunction with certain other macros (such as GR_FORTRAN).  We can avoid 
> the warnings and still be able to use either libtool 1.5 or 2.2 with the 
> attached one-line patch to configure.ac.  This should be considered a 
> temporary measure until we are ready to require users who need to run 
> bootstrap to upgrade to libtool 2.2.

Thanks, I'll test it and apply later on today.

> It would be convenient for Cygwin and MinGW users if future release 
> tarballs were prepared using libtool 2.2.  This would eliminate the need 
> for tarball users to install autotools and run ./bootstrap.
>
> -- Don W.

Good idea.  I'll check out libtool 2.2 on a couple of my systems.

Eric