On Mar  3, 2005, Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I was thinking about how configure often searches for autoconf and
> automake in order to maintain the package.  I guess it does not search
> for libtool since libtool files are not automatically maintained.

Right.  This works as long as the developer copies the contents of
libtool.m4 into their aclocal.m4 (if not using automake) or
acinclude.m4 (if using automake).  Failing that, an accidental aclocal
run might pick up a libtool.m4 that is incompatible with say
ltmain.sh.

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Alexandre Oliva             http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
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