Re: last minute fixes

[Gary V . Vaughan]

On Saturday 28 April 2001 11:46 am, Thomas Tanner wrote:
> Hi

`Tag Thomas.

> On 27-Apr-2001 Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> >> Hmm.  Isn't that equivalent to commiting the current contents of the
> >> MLB into HEAD?
> >
> > Yep.  Isn't that exactly what we want to do in order to eventually
> > terminate the branch?
>
>  IMO overwriting HEAD with MLB (which is still not up-to-date with HEAD)
>  is not The Right Way (tm) to merge both branches because we loose a lot of
>  new code which is only in HEAD.
>  I think we should either merge new code (including the ltconfig removal)
>  from HEAD to MLB while keeping HEAD in deep-freeze or
>  do it the other way around, which is probably easier and would
>  allow us to apply new patches to HEAD while keeping MLB in deep-freeze.

As I had feared =(O|

I guess your three stage approach is our best option.  We can divide up the 
responsibility that way so that none of us has to do all the work.  If we 
merge from a frozen MLB, then the issue with ltconfig removal is a little 
easier too: I just need to convert ltcf-*.sh into libtool.m4 along with some 
glue to append the right parts to the generated libtool.

To recap:
 
 1. start with a new ChangeLog file, port tags support, update documentation
 2. port new object file handling
 3. port lt-cf*/ltconfig to libtool.m4, add the new demo programs+tests

I'm volunteering for (3).  Any takers for the other parts of the merge?

Cheers,
        Gary.
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