Hi Peter, > On Feb 6, 2015, at 9:22 AM, Peter Rosin <p...@lysator.liu.se> wrote: > >> On 2015-02-04 15:48, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: >>> On Wed, 4 Feb 2015, Robert Yang wrote: >>> >>> When reporting a bug, please describe a test case to reproduce it and >>> include the following information: >>> >>> host-triplet: $host >>> shell: $SHELL >>> compiler: $LTCC >>> compiler flags: $LTCFLAGS >>> linker: $LD (gnu? $with_gnu_ld) >>> version: $progname (GNU libtool) 2.4.5 >>> automake: `($AUTOMAKE --version) 2>/dev/null |$SED 1q` >>> autoconf: `($AUTOCONF --version) 2>/dev/null |$SED 1q` >> >> Perhaps libtool is accidentially executing 'automake --version' and >> 'autoconf --version' every time it is executed? That would certainly lead >> to a huge slowdown. > > That's it of course, how else could the variable be assigned?
Only when --version is being serviced. > But is it even useful information? I would expect that the autofoo > versions *at the time the package was created* is what matters? The information is useful in bug reports, and our instructions for reporting a bug to the list explicitly ask for the output from `libtool --version` which by including their other autotool versions makes reproducing the reporters environment a lot easier :-) Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org) _______________________________________________ https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
