Re: Constantly changing libtool

2021-04-14 Thread Laurence Marks
It is not timestamp issues, it is version issues -- e.g. libtool 2.4.2 versus 2.4.6 (for instance, those are just invented numbers). In many cases aclocal, libtool, ltmain.sh and maybe a few others do not work if they were created with a different autoXYZ version than is on the computer where they

Re: Constantly changing libtool

2021-04-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 14 Apr 2021, Laurence Marks wrote: I have some software which has been "fine" for about 15 years, with one exception: every 6-12 months or so when I (or students/others) compile it we run into version problems. The typical ones are version mismatch between libtool and/or aclocal (called

Re: Constantly changing libtool

2021-04-14 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Laurence - sorry, but I can't imagine how to automatically correct version mismatches. The possible problems are both unpredictable and endless, seems to me. Maybe others here have some more useful idea. --best, karl.

Constantly changing libtool

2021-04-14 Thread Laurence Marks
I have some software which has been "fine" for about 15 years, with one exception: every 6-12 months or so when I (or students/others) compile it we run into version problems. The typical ones are version mismatch between libtool and/or aclocal (called from libtool). While I can futze around with l