On Apr 24, 2005, Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Alexandre, > * Alexandre Oliva wrote on Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 12:42:42AM CEST: >> On Apr 23, 2005, Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > -New in 1.5.15a: 2005-??-??; CVS version 1.5.15a, Libtool team: >> > +New in 1.5.16: 2005-04-23; CVS version 1.5.15a, Libtool team: >> >> Erhm... If this is going out soon, could we perhaps get the patch I >> posted for libtool.m4 in, to avoid configuring CXX and F77 in every >> single libtool script, part of packages that only care about C?
> I wanted to do the release today, but I will at least wait for the > Solaris feedback now. > AC_PROVIDE_IFELSE is not in Autoconf 2.50 (AFAICT it's in 2.52). I > don't know if we left its usability through other patches already, but > we do still advertise 2.50 compatibility. We have a fallback AC_PROVIDE_IFELSE early in libtool.m4, which enables us to use it even in earlier autoconf. And we actually do use it in AC_PROG_LIBTOOL. > Also, this has been fixed properly in branch-2-0 and above. Yep. This is 1.5 only. > I have not tested your patch, but would feel the need to do so quite a > bit if I were to put it in. (I have wondered whether to simply answer > "not strictly a bug", but that would be making it a bit too easy on my > side, I guess.) I'm fine with such a decision. I was just surprised when a co-worker reported this bug to me, and it took me a while to even admit this was possible :-) -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org}
