Re: FYI: HEAD: workaround for released autotools

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hallo Ralf!

On 29 Aug 2005, at 14:58, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 03:39:04PM CEST:
> > On 29 Aug 2005, at 13:53, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 02:26:16PM CEST:
> > > > On 29 Aug 2005, at 12:53, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > > > That would be fine with me.  Or a commandline switch for
> > > > > `bootstrap', FWIW.
> > > >
> > > > K.  Can you add that (either/or) and commit your original patch
> > > > please?
> > >
> > > OK like this?
>
> Darn, I managed to type ":r!cvs diff" before I saved the final version
> in the other buffer.  :-/

Glad it's not just me that does that from time to time ;-)

> > >        * bootstrap: Unless environment variable
> > > WORKING_LIBOBJS_SUPPORT
> >
> > You forgot to implement this part.
>
>
> > > +# Have symlinks of the libobj files in top source dir:
> > > +true && sublibobjs_supported=yes
> >
> >   ^^^^^ ???
>
> Pretty funny, eh?  Thanks for checking!  (Could've pretended that I  
> did
> this on purpose to see whether someone reads my patches..)

:-D  No sweat.

> I have committed this real patch below to HEAD.

Looks good to me.  Thanks.

> BTW, I noticed that "make distcheck" really does find out when libltdl
> files are not installed with properly ordered time stamps -- since the
> source tree is readonly then, new tests 14-17 fail aclocal execution.
> Nice work!

Thankyou! *beam*

> 2005-08-29  Gary V. Vaughan <address@hidden>,
>             Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden>
>
>         Allow for portability with Autoconf 2.59, Automake 1.9.6,
>         which lack AC_CONFIG_LIBOBJ_DIR support.
>
>         * bootstrap: Unless environment variable  
> WORKING_LIBOBJS_SUPPORT
>         is set to true aka `:', symlink ..
>         * argz.c lt__dirent.c lt__strl.c: .. these from the copies in
>         libltdl.
>         * configure.ac (SUBDIR_LIBOBJS): Automake conditional, set if
>         bootstrap didn't make the extra copies of libobj sources in
>         top srcdir...
>         * Makefile.am: Add these to EXTRA_DIST if SUBDIR_OBJS is  
> not set,
>         as well as the originals in libltdl/, in order to work when
>         bootstrapped both with old and newer Automake/Autoconf.

Cheers,
    Gary.
--
Gary V. Vaughan      ())_.  gary@ 
{lilith.warpmail.net,gnu.org},address@hidden
Research Scientist   ( '/   http://www.tkd.kicks-ass.net
GNU Hacker           / )=   http://www.gnu.org/software/{libtool,m4}
Technical Author   `(_~)_   http://sources.redhat.com/autobook

PGP.sig
Description: This is a digitally signed message part