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Re: Problem with libtool and aclocal


At 10:54 AM 6/21/00 +1000, Alan Modra wrote:
>On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Syd Polk wrote:
> > At 10:11 AM 6/21/00 +1000, Alan Modra wrote:
> > >OK, can we see your patches please?  Post them to the binutils list;
> > >There are many people reading this list with more experience in configury
> > >issues than I have.
> >
> > Patches to libtool.m4? Or patches to aclocal.m4 and configure? These files
> > are autogenerated by aclocal and autoconf, and the patches are usually
> > quite heinous.
>
>Excuse me for being a little dense.  After re-reading your original mail,
>I assume you want to update one or more of the versions of autoconf,
>automake, and libtool that are supposed to be used by binutils
>maintainers.  Since it was intended that binutils eventually move to
>released versions of these tools, and we have a late May release of
>libtool, that sounds like a good idea.

>Note that it's not sufficient to just check in generated files that have
>been created by newer tools, because the next autoconf or automake run by
>one of the maintainers will undo any fixes.  You need to post an
>announcement that you've put new snapshots of the configury tools on
>sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/binutils/, and ask that all maintainers please
>update their tools.

So I need to build your maintainer-tools for you? I don't think I even have 
write access to that portion of sourceware. I have informed you that there 
is a new libtool patch. I was expecting that you would check out the 
source, build the new maintainer tools and rerun aclocal and autoconf. I 
was not expecting to have to do that myself since I am not a maintainer of 
binutils; I was just informing you of the problem.


Syd Polk		spolk@redhat.com
Engineering Manager	+1 415 777 9810 x 241
Red Hat, Inc.




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