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From: | Charles Wilson |
Subject: | Re: Automake,cygwin: 'make clean' with libtool wrappers... |
Date: | Fri, 03 May 2002 23:46:41 -0400 |
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Robert Collins wrote:
I'm recalling the recent config.status --clean discussion that went on :}.
I musta missed that one. Sounds like I should be glad of that.
Robert, how hard is it to fix this in libtool?Frankly, libtool sucks. It's a great tool, and I use it all the time. However the internals could be much much cleaner - is it Bruce Korb that is working on a binary version? There's duplication (two copies of at least one function, varied only by trivia), little or no caching (the entire script has to run each invocation, where a saved subscript (ie libtool-clean) could preserve whatever gets calculated...
Yep.
So finding the correct area in libtool, and then cleaning it, will take a bit of time. It's not hard per se, just time consuming. I'll make time in the next week or 3 to review this.
Goody goody. Robert, I've got new cygwin packages for autoconf (2.53a), automake (1.6.1 + my patch; also a packaging fix -- there was an error in the 1.6 cygwin package), and libtool-20020502. Point setup.exe at
http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/testing/and update your system...that should give you a good starting point. The libtool package includes the changes you, I, and Ralf discussed a few weeks ago.
With a little positive feedback I might upload those to sourceware... --Chuck
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