On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello Dan,
>
> * Dan Nicholson wrote on Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:46:59PM CET:
>> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >
>> > The macro files may have been copied into your package with 'libtoolize
>> > --install', or 'aclocal --install', or their contents copied into the
>> > aclocal.m4 file from aclocal.  All of this may have been caused by
>> > autoreconf, or a bootstrap script.
>>
>> This is a bit off-topic, but what is the exact reason why autoreconf
>> does not run libtoolize?
>
> But it does!  Which autoreconf version are you using?
> Maybe it fails to detect that you're using Libtool?

I mean the `autoreconf' vs. `autoreconf -i' issue. Specifically,
`autoreconf' will run aclocal, potentially updating the libtool
macros, but then it will skip running libtoolize and you have the old
ltmain.sh. Looking at autoconf git, this is still the case. Do you
know why it does this?

--
Dan


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