On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 04:42 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
LT_INIT requires libtool v2 whereby xorg lowest common denominator
is
v1.5.
Oh, didn't know that.
This is where the tool chain versions are specified.
http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ModularDevelopersGuide#RequiredTools
A few days ago Jeremy changed libtool min version from 1.5 to 2.2,
I am trying to find out what led to this change.
I suspect that in real life almost everyone uses v2. If I
understand correctly, when configured with v2, libtool copies a
handful
of v2 macros in the m4 directory (only if available). This allows a
system with v1.5 to use the v2 macros.
autoreconf should copy all used macros into aclocal.m4 and the
templates
for the libtool script, so that you don't need those on the build
system.
Any missing macro should be detected by way of m4_pattern_forbid or at
“make dist” time. The version of libtool used should in theory matter
only on the system the person doing autoreconf runs it on.
Good, means no special case for libtool.
I am considering upgrading all of xorg to libtool v2 (only
formalizing
the current situation). I am interested in the feedback you may get
from
builders on that matter.
I would not expect any problem from people building from the tarballs
due to the libtool version. It could be an issue when building from
git
though.
Matthieu reported OpendBSD still requires to autoreconf using libtool
1.5 for about a year more.
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