Joe Orton wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:15:32PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: >> Joe Orton wrote: >>> Hi Max, >>> >>> On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 07:09:48PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: >>>> Below are the patches, one to apr and one to apr-util, revised to use >>>> PrintPath. >>> >>> I think it's useful to allow finding libtool.m4 in odd places without >>> requiring an aclocal installation - since this can be done with a very >>> simply change I've committed it rather than your patch. Hope this works >>> for you: just set $LIBTOOL_M4 appropriately. >> >> It's a slight improvement, but not by much. >> >> This means that every user of any distribution using auto-version-selecting >> autotool wrappers will need to set an environment variable. > > Ah, does CygWin use an autoconf wrapper which tries to guess whether it > should use 2.5x or 2.13 like Debian do/did?
Yes. >> This is like configure asking you to manually set things which it could test >> for. >> >> Shall I redo my patch to incorporate use of the LIBTOOL_M4 variable, or is >> the idea of using aclocal, even only optionally, simply not acceptable for >> some reason? > > I don't care strongly either way about the aclocal patch either way, so > I didn't commit it. If someone else wants to commit it they don't need > my approval. :) OK, but it will clash with the patch you just committed. I will wait for some feedback on the last iteration of my patch, and then if it is favourable, rebuild it to incorporate the LIBTOOL_M4 change. Max.
