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Re: Automake,cygwin: 'make clean' with libtool wrappers...


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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