Re: libtool (branch-1-5) report

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   Thanks! Could you also try HEAD? It's not very clear wether the
   next release will be 1.5.1 or 1.6, although 1.6 will be there
   roughly in a pair of months.

libtool from HEAD fails at one test (mdemo2-make.test), I didn't have
the time to check what went wrong, but will do that today.

   There's also the question that the "gnu*)" test case in libtool.m4
   doesn't have as many defined variables than other GNU-like
   systems. Comparing to "kfreebsd*-gnu" and "knetbsd*-gnu", the
   following are missing:

     shlibpath_overrides_runpath=no
     dynamic_linker='GNU ld.so'

   Any comments on this? Perhaps we should ask the libtool
   maintainers.

shlibpath_overrides_runpath should be set.  What is dynamic_linker
used for? I only looked breifly at libtool, and it seems that it is
only used to print what linker we are using.  If thats the case then I
think we should just stick with the default which is a bit more
informative then "GNU ld.so" (the default is "gnu0.3 ld.so").


Cheers.