Re: AC_LANG smartness not smart enough for AC_PROG_LIBTOOL

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Lars" == Lars J Aas <address@hidden> writes:

Lars> If you invoke AC_LANG(C++) above AC_PROG_LIBTOOL, you will find
Lars> that $ac_ext is "c" after AC_PROG_LIBTOOL has been run, and
Lars> invoking AC_LANG(C++) again will not dispatch the necessary
Lars> shell code to fix this again since AC_LANG thinks everything is
Lars> hunky dory.  You need to switch to another language and back
Lars> again to get it right...

I think the smartness of AC_LANG is the right thing, it enforces the
balance which is anyway needed to have things work properly.  We have
to fix Libtool IMHO.

Really, I can't wait till we have some release of Libtool and Automake
that completely forget about 2.13.