Re: libtool pre-1.5b tests fail on 9 debian arches

2003-09-28 Thread Earnie Boyd
Oh, to the ode of creating new worms... Robert Millan wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 07:26:20PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: Updating to any later version of Libtool is the same amount of work, whether it be the Debian-patched version or not. Most of the time, when build failures occur,

Re: libtool pre-1.5b tests fail on 9 debian arches

2003-09-28 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 08:04:55PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: Or an even better one, just from build failures in the last few days ... upstream placing the contents of libtool.m4 in acinclude.m4, so even after aclocal runs the old version is still used. One thing about maintaining a

Re: libtool pre-1.5b tests fail on 9 debian arches

2003-09-28 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Robert Millan wrote: Assigning copyright and being given CVS access is not necessarily related: For any substantial updates, copyright is certainly the driving issue. - If you send too many patches for review without having CVS access, then you might consider

Re: libtool pre-1.5b tests fail on 9 debian arches

2003-09-28 Thread Robert Millan
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 10:17:34AM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: - If you send too many patches for review without having CVS access, then you might consider assigning copyright so that you can send more patches for review. The FSF guidelines specify allow to 14 lines of *total*

Re: should libtool check for the correct version of find?

2003-09-28 Thread Richard Dawe
Hello. Matthew Arnison wrote: libtool appears to depend on Unix find. Under Cygwin, an incorrect path can cause the Windows FIND to be used instead. To the untrained eye, (that is, me two days ago) it's not obvious from the output of configure and libtool that this has happened. The only

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CVS head requires am-1.8 and ac-2.58

2003-09-28 Thread Robert Millan
Hi! I just noticed that with latest Gary's commit running the bootstrap script from libtool CVS HEAD now requires automake 1.8 and autoconf 2.58. As I already commented on this list, I'm going through the task of testing libtool on a variety of CPUs and asking the Debian port maintainers for