On 9/20/2010 2:22 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > No, if I understand Peter's comment correct, autobuild is NOT required > for libtool, even with an autoreconf. Why? Because the original > libtool patch at commit 92d24b3 made the use of AB_INIT optional - it > only calls the macro _if_ autobuild.m4 could be found in the first > place. When AB_INIT is not found, the only change is that the generated > ./configure file no longer outputs magic strings that can be recognized > by an autobuild daemon; missing strings merely makes it harder to submit > build results to an autobuild daemon, but has no effect on how libtool > itself behaves. Reduced configure output is not a build dependency; > that would be the case only if the act of running autoreconf on libtool > flat-out fails if autobuild was not present.
Ehh...okay. I was simply going the text in HACKING: * Make sure you have wget, xz, and autobuild installed. aclocal should be able to find autobuild.m4; or you can install it into the tree with aclocal -I libltdl/m4 --install There was also a short conversation between Ralf and Gary about the autobuild "requirement" but (a) I can't find it, and (b) I don't really remember the resolution. However, that's a non-issue now: > Furthermore, I just sent a patch to libtool that avoids the need to have > autobuild installed in the first place: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.libtool.general/11095/focus=10741 Right, I see that was approved and pushed, so... > So, I still think that providing autobuild as a cygwin package makes > sense, but since I'm arguing that it is NOT a build requirement for > libtool, it means we need a previous distro link or the full 5 votes. > We're at 2 now; anyone else want to chime in? Yep, now we actually need votes. -- Chuck