Re: [PATCH] Fix for bootstrapping with latest CVS Autoconf

[Morten Eriksen]

Alexandre Oliva <address@hidden> writes:

> The only way to do it so that it works with both autoconf 2.13 and
> CVS autoconf, without triggering the warning in CVS autoconf, is
> this (from CVS automake's missing.m4):
> 
>   am_backtick='`'
>   AC_MSG_WARN([${am_backtick}$VAR' ...])

Ok, I see. New (untested) patch attached.

BTW, I noticed something which looks a bit strange to me. Beginning at
approximately line 2180 of libtool.m4 (from the head CVS branch),
there are a lot of shell variables which are set up. But some of them
are just set to their current value, for instance like this:

[...]
# The host system.
host_alias=$host_alias
host=$host
[...]
# A symbol stripping program
STRIP=$STRIP

# Used to examine libraries when file_magic_cmd begins "file"
MAGIC_CMD=$MAGIC_CMD

# Used on cygwin: DLL creation program.
DLLTOOL="$DLLTOOL"

# Used on cygwin: object dumper.
OBJDUMP="$OBJDUMP"

# Used on cygwin: assembler.
AS="$AS"
[...]

..etc, etc. What is the point in doing this?

Regards,
Morten

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