Re: [PATCH] automake: do not require ltmain.sh for out-of-tree libtool

Mathieu Lirzin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.automake.patches
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,

Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]> writes:

> On 31/10/2016 13:30, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> If Automake does not see LT_SUPPORTED_TAG, it assumes an old libtool
>> that does not know about AC_REQUIRE_AUX_FILE.  However, if the program
>> does not use Libtool's configure.ac macros this check gets a
>> false positive.  Do not require ltmain.sh if no Libtool macro is
>> found in configure.ac.
>> 
>> Libtools that are not stone-age are already covered by LT_SUPPORTED_TAG
>> and _LT_AC_TAGCONFIG, but add AC_PROG_LIBTOOL just in case for Libtool
>> up to 1.4.
>
> This patch was never applied.

I will take a look at this in the weekend.

Thanks for reminding us.

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Mathieu Lirzin
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