bug#67539: GNU Automake 1.16.5 FAILS one test objc-megademo

2023-12-25 Thread Karl Berry
Closing this since there's nothing left to do on the automake side. (Someone new volunteered to take over libtool, BTW, but I see no changes in the maintainers file as yet. Not sure where that stands.) --best, karl.

bug#67539: GNU Automake 1.16.5 FAILS one test objc-megademo

2023-12-10 Thread Karl Berry
partially related to how Automake is calling libtool from the build rules (it is missing the --tag option), I added the tags to automake as previously posted here. (https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=67539) no tag defined for Objective C[1] (presumably it would be

bug#67539: GNU Automake 1.16.5 FAILS one test objc-megademo

2023-12-02 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 30 Nov 2023 22:45, Nick Bowler wrote: > Interestingly the libtool manual also says "If [libtool] can't infer a > tag, then it defaults to the configuration for the C language", which is > clearly not the case (it seems what actually happens is that if libtool > can't infer a tag then it

bug#67539: GNU Automake 1.16.5 FAILS one test objc-megademo

2023-12-02 Thread Karl Berry
However it looks like there is no tag defined for Objective C[1] (presumably it would be --tag=OBJC). Adding this option does appear to make things "work" in the sense that libtool just complains about the unknown tag but then proceeds to actually do stuff, rather than exiting

bug#67539: GNU Automake 1.16.5 FAILS one test objc-megademo

2023-11-30 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2023-11-30 21:46, Karl Berry wrote: Hi Dennis, libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration Thanks for the report. As you surmise, apparently this needs to be reported to libtool. (Although afaik libtool is currently unmaintained, so I don't know when or if anything will get

bug#67539: GNU Automake 1.16.5 FAILS one test objc-megademo

2023-11-30 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Dennis, libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration Thanks for the report. As you surmise, apparently this needs to be reported to libtool. (Although afaik libtool is currently unmaintained, so I don't know when or if anything will get fixed.) At least, I have no idea what to