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Re: Updating libtool in GCC and srctree

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
To: binutils at sourceware dot org
Cc: Steve Ellcey <sje at cup dot hp dot com>, schwab at suse dot de, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 02:43:05 -0500
Subject: Re: Updating libtool in GCC and srctree
References: <200703090037.QAA13985@hpsje.cup.hp.com>

On Thursday 08 March 2007, Steve Ellcey wrote:
> > You'll still need libtool.m4.
>
> Are you sure?  According to
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual.html#Distributing> we
> shouldn't need libtool.m4 in our package.

i'm pretty sure those guidelines are for people making their final 
redistributable source tarball ... since you shouldnt be regenerating 
autotools with that package, you shouldnt include the libtool.m4

in the sourceware case, regenerating the files happens often so the .m4 should 
be included to match the ltmain.sh ... very weird things can happen if the 
libtool code that makes it into configure (via the .m4/aclocal) is a 
different version from the ltmain.sh ... i like the one where shared 
libraries are generated but they lack the '.so' suffix :)
-mike

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- Re: Updating libtool in GCC and srctree
  - From: Steve Ellcey

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