Re: Integrating libtool head into GraphicsMagick

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > Does anyone have an idea as to how Automake can be encouraged to look
> > in the right place?
>
> AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR needs support from both Autoconf and Automake,
> added after 2.59 and 1.9.6 respectively (patches from Gary, added around
> 2005-04-25).  And yes, libtool.texi documents this for nonrecursive
> mode.
>
> You may easily work around this in the same way we did in Libtool:
>  for file in lt__dirent.c argz.c lt__strl.c; do
>    rm -f $file
>    cp ltdl/$file $file
>  done

So the only solution using released tools is to pollute the top of the 
source tree with copies of files.  How unpleasant!

Is there any ETA for a new Autoconf release?

Bob
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