Re: 278-gary-libtoolize-without-automake-or-AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR.diff

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
>
> * Patrick Welche wrote on Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 12:57:40PM CEST:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 10:51:43AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >
> > > This description is what completely got me on the wrong track.
> > > The 1.5 behavior is not "dropping them in the current directory" but
> > > "telling the user to update them by hand".
> > >
> > > And as such, that is very much ok.  :)
> >
> > I wonder whether a switch to libtoolize to make it list which .m4 files
> > it needs would be good..
>
> Most likely yes.  :)
>
> But that would be a new feature, so another one for the "look at it
> post-2.0" list..

Actually, I think it is a bug.  Telling the user to add libtool.m4
to aclocal.m4 will not result in a working configure script.  See
my patch [284] for the solution...

Cheers,
        Gary.
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