Re: Is libtool being maintained at all?

2003-07-14 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hi Bob, thank you very much for your quick reply, and taking my concerns seriously. Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Dalibor Topic wrote: Salut Nicholas, hello Bob, The somewhat bad part is that we have discovered several problems with libtool 1.5, ranging from hour-long configure

Re: MKS Bourne Shell case weirdness...

2003-07-14 Thread Lars J. Aas
Hi Paul, Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : Lars J. Aas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : Is it possible that this is a local problem for the given MKS user I : am working with and that he may have a somewhat faulty MKS : installation or something? : : Possibly. It'd be nice if we could have

Libtool 1.5 messes up cross-compilation

2003-07-14 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hi, we've recently had a bug report about cross compiling kaffe for arm-linux. It turned out that libtool was picking the wrong libjpeg library, the one from the host system instead of the one from the target system. See the end of http://www.kaffe.org/pipermail/kaffe/2003-July/042988.html

Re: Is libtool being maintained at all?

2003-07-14 Thread Peter O'Gorman
On Monday, July 14, 2003, at 07:12 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: Becoming a maintainer involves signing a contract with the FSF (takes two or three weeks) and being set up with CVS commit privileges. Is this contract the same as the copyright assignment? I'd like a commit bit to apply darwin

Re: Is libtool being maintained at all?

2003-07-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Dalibor Topic wrote: I'm sorry about my confusing wording. While I have received interesting replys to my critique of the process, I have not received a response on the patch itself, except from an ironical remark about open source developers and vacation. ;) That was

Fixing Re: Is libtool being maintained at all?

2003-07-14 Thread Dalibor Topic
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Dalibor Topic wrote: Our patches are against libtool 1.5, I hope that's current enough. Patches against current CVS libtool are definitely preferred even though this puts more burden on the patch submitter. The easier and less risky your patch is to

Re: Fixing Re: Is libtool being maintained at all?

2003-07-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Dalibor Topic wrote: Sure. the patch I sent (and two others I have) applies to kaffe's /cvs/kaffe/kaffe/libltdl/acinclude.m4 which corresponds to libtool's libtool.m4. I can resend the patch against the current libtool CVS if you would please take a look at it. It is a

Re: Fixing Re: Is libtool being maintained at all?

2003-07-14 Thread Albert Chin
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 08:25:06PM +0200, Dalibor Topic wrote: The proper way to fix it could be to do a binary search over multiples of 2 instead of the linear search emplyed now. Use a resonable minamal value like 2**13, which leaves only a few options between 2**13 and 2**17, which is

libtool patches

2003-07-14 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
To my knowledge, all of the outstanding libtool patches which have been submitted to the libtool mailing lists and which are not subject to further discussion or copyright assignment, have been been applied to libtool CVS. Distribution maintainers who have made fixes to the libtool in their