Changing libtool defaults causes inconsistent results

Hi there!
   Anyone know much about libtool defaults?

   On AIX, if we build without selecting —disable-shared or —disable-static at configure time causes a conflict where both versions of the library are named libwhatever.a, and then the shared version gets overwritten at install time.  For this reason I think that setting the default to svr4-style libraries would be more consistent with how distributions were done in the past.

   This can be done by using the configure option —with-aix-soname=svr4.  But according to the libtool documentation, we should be able to specify this in the configure macros when we call LT_INIT.  This is done in src/cf/afs-libtool.m4.  If we change the call to

   LT_INIT([aix-soname=svr4])

And then run ./configure without any options, that should be identical to —with-aix-soname=svr4, yet it doesn’t.  Specifying it as an argument works, but modifying the m4 source doesn’t.  

   I can post a diff but there’s quite a bit of differences.  Anyone know enough about libtool to understand why these two things wouldn’t give identical results?

   Many thanks in advance!!

-Ben


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