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Re: Libtool 1.4.3
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Andreas Schwab |
Subject: |
Re: Libtool 1.4.3 |
Date: |
Wed, 09 Oct 2002 12:09:09 +0200 |
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"Thomas E. Dickey" <address@hidden> writes:
|> On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Lars Hecking wrote:
|>
|> > Bob Friesenhahn writes:
|> > > On 8 Oct 2002, Akim Demaille wrote:
|> > > >
|> > > > There is one big question which must be answered first: will it have
|> > > > to be Autoconf 2.13 compatible?
|> > > >
|> > > > I *strongly* suggest that it must not. It should AC_PREREQ 2.54
|> > > > immediately. Then, I'm fine with checking the M4 code and making it
|> > > > up to date. If needed, I'll wrap a 2.55 with whatever is needed to
|> > > > have Libtool work better with Autoconf.
|> > >
|> > > I agree. I can't imagine why anyone would want to use an antique
|> > > version of Autoconf which dates from 1996.
|> >
|> > Because it works? In any case, it's the respective maintainer's choice.
|> >
|> > Making autoconf incompatible with previous versions of itself while not
|> > upping the major release number at the same time was a pretty bad move
IMHO.
|>
|> Deliberately introducing design incompatibilities simply encourages people
|> to use other tools.
In my experience almost all problems that occur while moving to autoconf
2.5x are outright bugs in the configure.in/aclocal.m4 scripts.
Andreas.
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"And now for something completely different."
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3, (continued)
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3, Thomas E. Dickey, 2002/10/08
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3, Thomas E. Dickey, 2002/10/08
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3, Bob Friesenhahn, 2002/10/08
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3 - unsolvable issue, Allan Clark (rply to list pls), 2002/10/08
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3, Sascha Schumann, 2002/10/08
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3, Eric Siegerman, 2002/10/08
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3, Thomas E. Dickey, 2002/10/08
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3,
Andreas Schwab <=
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3, Thomas Dickey, 2002/10/09
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3, Andreas Schwab, 2002/10/09
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3, Thomas Dickey, 2002/10/09
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3, Stephan Kulow, 2002/10/09
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3, Earnie Boyd, 2002/10/08
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3, Sascha Schumann, 2002/10/08
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3, Akim Demaille, 2002/10/09
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3, Sascha Schumann, 2002/10/09
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3, Akim Demaille, 2002/10/09
- Re: Libtool 1.4.3, Sascha Schumann, 2002/10/09