> From: Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 24 Sep 2002 13:33:43 +0200
>
> So as was kindly suggested by TED, we should have autoreconf work
> around Libtool problems.
I missed that suggestion somewhere in my mailbox (currently with 2035
messages to read, sigh); if you think it preferable to the patch
below, can you please send a URL?
> I have not read all the details yet, but does anybody know what we
> must do to cope with Libtool 1.4.2?
How about this patch to Autoconf? It should let us limp along until a
new libtool version is published. (In this patch I resisted the
temptation to append "Libtool? Run away! Run away!")
--- old/BUGS 2002-03-26 08:14:37.000000000 -0800
+++ new/BUGS 2002-09-24 06:35:04.496461535 -0700
@@ -38,3 +38,12 @@
/*--------------------------.
| Sane for full scale use. |
`--------------------------*/
+
+* Interoperability bugs
+
+** AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR and libtool 1.4.2.
+
+Autoconf-generated scripts that use AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR do not work with
+libtool 1.4.2. Robert Boehne and Michael Matz have published a patch
+for libtool in:
+<http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/libtool-patches/2002-January/001659.html>.
