Re: small fix of libtool.m4

2016-05-09 Thread Christian
Hey Richard, sorry i didn’t see your patch. as i wrote in the beginning, this is one of my first patches i committed and i might have done something wrong. In this case i haven’t had a look at the bug list first. sorry for that. i don’t want to say your patch is not working, since i didn’t try

Re: small fix of libtool.m4

2016-05-09 Thread Richard PALO
Le 10/05/16 02:43, Christian a écrit : > i’ve had a look again at libtool.m4 and don’t really get why RM is set wrong. > obviously the _LT_CONFIG macro literally requires _LT_FILEUTILS_DEFAULT, > which should set RM to ‘rm -f’. I also found several uses of $RM with > different options,

Re: small fix of libtool.m4

2016-05-09 Thread Christian
i’ve had a look again at libtool.m4 and don’t really get why RM is set wrong. obviously the _LT_CONFIG macro literally requires _LT_FILEUTILS_DEFAULT, which should set RM to ‘rm -f’. I also found several uses of $RM with different options, sometimes even ‘-f’. So actually i am not sure what

Re: small fix of libtool.m4

2016-05-09 Thread Roumen Petrov
Christian wrote: so today i gave it a shot again and put a debug output right before the ‘$RM “$cfgfile”’. For some reason RM is set to ‘/bin/rm’ only. no ‘-f’. i’ll try to figure out where that might come from. Perhaps build package is libxslt . Issue is already reported many times. Project

Re: small fix of libtool.m4

2016-05-09 Thread Christian
so today i gave it a shot again and put a debug output right before the ‘$RM “$cfgfile”’. For some reason RM is set to ‘/bin/rm’ only. no ‘-f’. i’ll try to figure out where that might come from. anyway, thx for the hint :) > On May 8, 2016, at 8:57 PM, Christian wrote:

Re: small fix of libtool.m4

2016-05-08 Thread Christian
thx Eric for taking a look at my patch. it seems to be a good idea to use ‘rm -f’ and i also think it looks like $RM should already be set to ‘rm -f’. but i don’t get why it should fail than. what i’ll do next is check if $RM really is set to ‘rm -f’ using a debug print. couldn’t do it right

Re: small fix of libtool.m4

2016-05-06 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/05/2016 11:22 PM, Christian wrote: > So i found that if you’re running ‘./configure’ on a project that depends on > libtool, it might happen that the script will end up with the following > error: > “/bin/rm: cannot remove 'libtoolT': No such file or directory”. I did some > >