Hello Eric, Akim, * Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 02:26:57PM CET: > According to Akim Demaille on 12/19/2008 5:08 AM: > > I have been bitten by this :( > > So has autoconf, which is why all m4sugar scripts currently start with the > shorter: > > IFS=" "" $as_nl" > > Which makes me wonder - do we even need this patch, or is it sufficient to > entirely delete libtool's IFS initialization in favor of m4sugar's, thanks > to Paolo's recent cleanups to use m4sugar as documented?
Libtool aims and needs to work with Autoconf 2.59. So much for "recent". And no, this requirement won't change for a while. As to over-eager editors: please turn those automatisms off. Now that we have git, history is a lot easier to search, but still I would like cleanup patches to be separate from functional patches, please. Of course not introducing new issues to clean up is a good thing. Thanks, Ralf
