* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Wed, May 05, 2010 at 07:17:38AM CEST: > On 5 May 2010, at 00:55, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > Somebody noted (off-list) that our bootstrap leaves information specific > > from the person doing a release in the resulting tarball. Specifically, > > you should not have set $GREP, $EGREP, $FGREP, $SED, and some other > > variables set in the bootstrap script, to some system-specific value, > > because that will make them end up in the generated libtool script as > > default value (and also a couple of other scripts). These may cause > > errors for others. This is probably a bug in the bootstrap script or in > > libltdl/config/general.m4sh, I haven't analyzed. > > Okay thanks. I'll take a look, though I don't think it's something that > would make 2.2.8 from HEAD worse than 2.2.6a in the wild, so I think it > can afford to wait until we've reved.
Well, it's trivial to *avoid* by working around, when you do a release: unset GREP FGREP SED ... PATH=/some/suitable/tools/bin:$PATH export PATH so please remember to do that, in case the bug isn't fixed beforehand. Thanks, Ralf _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool