Hi,

> On Jan 5, 2016, at 8:08 PM, James Peach <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Jan 5, 2016, at 12:59 AM, Benjamin Bannier 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> dolt is a replacement for libtool which promises to fix some performance 
>> issues of libtool, many of which have since dolt’s release landed in some 
>> versions of libtool.
> 
> Is dolt still maintained?

No, development has stopped, but we are talking about 180 lines of m4 code 
here, most of which are embedded shell script templates.

I have used dolt without issues for other projects in the past (mostly under 
some Linux), and sent this mail around to find out it it breaks builds for some 
systems we don’t test often.

>> I have made some first measurements of dolt under Debian8 (hardly any 
>> improvement) and OS X 10.10.5 (noticeable speed-up)
> 
> Which version of autoconf did you test on OS X?

This is GNU autoconf-2.69 from homebrew.


Cheers,

Benjamin

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