"Maciej W. Rozycki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > directly (that is bad juju). Libtool, on the other hand, *is*
> > invoking linker directly. But I'm digressing.
>
> That's an internal implementation detail. I think we shouldn't care as
> long as it works. Note that invoking ${LD} may have side effects (e.g.
> with gcc ld is called indirectly via collect2), so libtool may actually
> know what it is doing.
There's a bunch of reasons why Libtool is wrong in what it does, but
they're not worth discussing here. As I said, it's just a digression.
> > Thanks a lot for the patches. Could you clarify: are these patches
> > meant for Autoconf 2.50 only, or will they work with the older
> > Autoconf versions too?
>
> They mostly work for 2.13 (except from the AC_MSG_RESULT_UNQUOTED
> invocation) but the AIX patch issues a warning when running autoconf and
> the quoting patches add superfluous brackets in the `./configure --help'
> output.
So most of them are not for 2.13? Hmm, I'll have to investigate that
on my own, I guess.
> Can't comment the gettext patch -- that's weird in the first place,
> but it just implements what autoconf's ChangeLog suggests (why can't
> you use AM_GNU_GETTEXT so we have a single place to fix, anyway?).
Last time I checked, AM_GNU_GETTEXT expected you to bundle gettext
with your program. IMHO unacceptable.
