> On Mar 20, 2014, at 5:37 AM, Arnout Vandecappelle
> <arnout.vandecappe...@essensium.com> wrote:
>
> [Please keep me in CC, I'm not on the list]
>
> Dear libtool maintainers,
>
> Is there a possibility for a new libtool release in the foreseeable future?
Hi Arnout,
Yes, absolutely. In fact there are only 2 things ahead of it on my TODO list:
1. Figure out why a4ffcdb5e is a regression for test 57
2. fix test 120 race condition
Unfortunately, Libtool is a complex beast, and we are woefully undermanned here.
While everything rests on my shoulders, it will be at least another month
before I can start work (I'm in the process of emigrating and all that entails).
Patches for those 2 items, or any other as yet unknown issues with git master
(or http://vaughan.pe/libtool/libtool-2.4.2.458.tar.gz if a bootstrapped
tarball is easier to work with) are extremely welcome, and could lead to an
immediate release...
Most recent test logs here:
http://vaughan.pe/libtool/libtool-2.4.2.458.logs/
> In buildroot, we build all autotools (including libtool) as part of the
> cross-compilation process. We recently had to add a libtool patch for
> MIPS n64 support, which is annoying because it means we have to re-run
> automake etc. to update the autools-generated scripts in libtool.
Did you patch just config.guess/config.sub and pass that back upstream? That is
a prerequisite for arriving in the next release. Otherwise if you patched
Libtool files, are your changes in upstream already?
> However, our normal autotools support doesn't work because that creates a
> circular dependency. So we have to add a few hacks in the libtool build
> steps to make things work.
>
> A release of libtool would help a lot because then we don't need to
> carry patches and we don't need to generate configure etc.
>
> Thank you,
> Regards,
> Arnout
> --
> Arnout Vandecappelle arnout dot vandecappelle at essensium dot com
Cheers,
--
Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)
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