Re: Autoreconf calling order order

Ralf Wildenhues <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.patches,gmane.comp.gnu.m4.patches,gmane.comp.gnu.libtool.patches
Organization Department of Numerical Simulation, University of Bonn
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 07:57:20PM CET:
> According to Ralf Wildenhues on 1/24/2008 11:00 AM:
> | * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 06:19:37PM CET:
> |> I haven't picked through the logic inside autoreconf, but it seems
> |> completely wrong to me for it to run any tool that affects the contents
> |> of aclocal.m4 after aclocal itself (unless, perhaps, it reruns aclocal
> |> again later).
> |
> | aclocal will be rerun again after libtoolize.
> 
> But that didn't help in the (admittedly less common) case where there was
> an incompatible out-of-date libtool.m4 already incorporated in aclocal.m4
> before the first aclocal run.

Unless the previous libtool.m4 comes from a released version, I'm not
sure I'm inclined to look more closely (and anyway I can't before Monday).

Cheers,
Ralf
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