Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <[email protected]> writes: > Just clarifying for a broader audience:
Thanks for the clarification. > On Debian, using autoreconf required a change to one upstream file [1] > because the libtool macros are shipped with 'link_all_libdeps=no'. > > Therefore that patch [2] just added in *_LDADD the missing libdep listed > in *_DEPENDENCIES (libgettextlib.la), plus libunistring in one case. > > It's reasonable for upstream not to consider it, since it is required > due to a change downstream. > >> So: Would be possible to release a gettext version using latest >> libtool so that I do not need to add any special hack in the Debian >> package? (Or maybe this is not even fixed in libtool yet?) > > This was fixed in libtool (as of [3]), and incorporated in v2.4.2.418. So, yes, probably we should skip the Makefile.am changes (in upstream). For the patch to libtool.m4, I'd also like to wait until a new libtool stable release, but if it takes long time and the change is trivial enough, I think it could be backported (like [1]). Footnotes: [1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gettext.git/commit/?id=73acab39
