Updating libtool in GCC and srctree

Steve Ellcey sje@cup.hp.com
Fri Mar 9 00:37:00 GMT 2007


> > I downloaded the 2.1a snapshot of libtool and found
> 
> Are you sure you want to use the (rather oldish) 2.1a snapshot?  I think
> you'll better off using the latest stable release which is 1.5.22.

I thought that 2.1a was a snapshot of ToT.  I have some recollection of
someone saying we would want to use ToT libtool as opposed to the latest
released one.

> > ltmain.sh in libltdl/config/ltmain.sh, I copied that to the top level of
> > the src tree and then removed libtool.m4,
> 
> 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.

Steve Ellcey
sje@cup.hp.com



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