* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 05:56:11PM CET: > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >>Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >> > >>Now that I think about it, it does seem sensible to make the $top_srcdir > >>layout of installed files used by libtoolize match their layout in the > >>installation tree, which will make libtoolizes life a whole lot easier > >>all round. Shall we aim at that instead of this patch? > > > > > > I'm not so sure things *will* get easier that way. > > Sure they do... it saves 42 lines of code in libtoolize infact :-) > Patch to follow.
Yeah, I'll judge that when I see it. :-> > > Would it not suffice to put all the testsuite tests which would need > > this, into `installcheck'? Would that defeat some purpose? > > I'd rather be able to tell that the latest libtool is broken *before* I > install it over the old one! No, I meant that differently. Just like distcheck, take an installation directory you own (and can `rm -rf' later) and check that installation. Thinking again .. maybe that was a slip of mind. I'm not sure. Regards, Ralf
