Re: misleading note in libtool header

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> For example, CVS GraphicsMagick libtoolized with CVS HEAD Libtool
> creates a libtool script with this in the first few lines:
>
> # libtool - Provide generalized library-building support services.
> # Generated automatically by config.status (GNU GraphicsMagick) 1.2.020051210
>
> This is misleading and wrong.  We hardwire the `GNU' in libtool.m4's
> _LT_CONFIG:
> | # Generated automatically by $as_me (GNU $PACKAGE$TIMESTAMP) $VERSION
>
> Either that should be hard-coded to always show the actual Libtool
> version this corresponds to, or the `GNU' should not be there.

config.status doesn't come from libtool.  It seems that the message is 
trying to identify the origin of config.status, which is really from 
Autoconf.  So the message makes more sense if the Autoconf version 
goes there.

Bob
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