Re: gdb and ancient GNU autotools
Tom Tromey <[email protected]>
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>>>>> "Joseph" == Joseph Myers via Gdb <[email protected]> writes: Joseph> A reminder: mixing a libtool update into an autoconf/automake update would Joseph> be a bad idea, a libtool update is likely a lot harder, since (a) the Joseph> libtool version used is very old (reportedly based on upstream commit Joseph> 2c9c38d8a12eb0a2ce7fe9c3862523026c3d5622) I wonder whether we could get rid of libtool. The host OS landscape is a lot less varied than when it was written. Many of the problem Unix variants are dead now. Perhaps libtool doesn't provide all that much value. Tom