On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Bojan Smojver <bo...@rexursive.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 08:02 +1100, Bojan Smojver wrote: >> Libtool is slightly ahead: 2.4 v 2.2.4, but this is not where the >> warnings are coming from (mostly). > > Actually, that is not correct. If I use 2.2.4 instead of built-in 2.4, I > do get warnings and they do come from the files contributed by this > version of libtool. Pretty much the same stuff as what Rainer fixed in > APR - missing AC_LANG_SOURCE. > > So, given that vanilla autoconf and the one from F-16 are pretty much > the same thing and given that libtool 2.2.4 is giving warnings (i.e. is > obviously more obsolete than 2.4, when used with autoconf 2.68), I think > I should just roll the 1.4.6 release with the tools I have in F-16. If > that turns out bogus, I will release again. Version numbers are cheap. > > If you disagree with this assessment, let me know.
Using the slightly patched tool(s) from Fedora seems like a pain for others to reproduce exactly, whereas anyone can install autotools of arbitrary versions on arbitrary non-Windows machines in just a few minutes.
