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FYI: HEAD: small fixes
From: |
Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
FYI: HEAD: small fixes |
Date: |
Thu, 1 Sep 2005 16:28:35 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.4.1i |
* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 04:06:02PM CEST:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>
> > * bootstrap: Do not use nonportable -path.
> > Reported by Ralf Menzel <address@hidden>.
>
> Yep. Please commit!
>
> > * libltdl/m4/libtool.m4 (_LT_PROG_CXX, _LT_PROG_F77)
> > (_LT_PROG_FC): aclocal-1.4 compatibility workaround.
>
> Also good. Please commit too.
Done.
> I think it would be good to add a test that checks all m4_defun and
> m4_define declared macros, and complains if they don't also have an
> aclocal-1.4 compatibility comment...
OK. I'll look into it. By the way, _LT_PROG_CXX is m4_defun()ed but
AC_REQUIRE()d. Is this a problem or is this ok? I guess that it is
necessary for compatibility, but am, again, lost.
> I've been meaning to set up a backwards compatibility environment
> with progressively older autotools each installed to their own
> prefix, and a driver script that tries to bootstrap and distcheck
> libtool in each... I might work on it after the next alpha if the
> bug reports don't overwhelm us (yeah right!!).
Have fun with it :)
Cheers,
Ralf