autoreconf --help (was: Libtool release plan)

2006-05-17 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Olly, * Olly Betts wrote on Tue, May 16, 2006 at 01:38:05PM CEST: I'm guessing the issue is that the tarball builder reuses the same SVN checkout and just reruns autoreconf without --force. The output from autoreconf --help says: Run `autoconf' (and `autoheader', `aclocal',

Re: autoreconf --help (was: Libtool release plan)

2006-05-17 Thread Olly Betts
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 07:19:57PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: At the same time let's get rid of the CONFIGURE-AC argument we're suggesting there but which didn't work right anyway. But let's not actually change the functionality, so that what works continues to. (A bit fragile, I know; I

Re: Libtool release plan

2006-05-16 Thread Olly Betts
On 2006-05-16, Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Feel free, any kind of feedback is helpful. Esp. we're looking for packages that are broken by the new Autoconf, so that unintended incompatibilities can be fixed before the release. I've tried it now. I didn't have to modify any of the

Re: Libtool release plan

2006-05-16 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Olly Betts wrote on Tue, May 16, 2006 at 11:28:41AM CEST: On 2006-05-16, Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Feel free, any kind of feedback is helpful. Esp. we're looking for packages that are broken by the new Autoconf, so that unintended incompatibilities can be fixed before the

Re: Libtool release plan

2006-05-16 Thread Olly Betts
On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 01:03:43PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: * Olly Betts wrote on Tue, May 16, 2006 at 11:28:41AM CEST: I've tried it now. I didn't have to modify any of the configure scripts at all. Any self-grown or third-party macros that use exit(3) in compile tests? Not that I

Re: Libtool release plan (was: Libtool apparantly removing path parameters on FreeBSD)

2006-05-15 Thread Olly Betts
On 2006-05-10, Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Olly Betts wrote on Wed, May 10, 2006 at 04:38:08PM CEST: Is there likely to be a 1.5.24 release soon? Oh dear. Don't ask about my original plans. They were something like this: have Autoconf-2.60 in March, then Libtool-1.5.24 soon

Re: Libtool release plan

2006-05-15 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Olly, * Olly Betts wrote on Tue, May 16, 2006 at 01:48:55AM CEST: On 2006-05-10, Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Olly Betts wrote on Wed, May 10, 2006 at 04:38:08PM CEST: I know Libtool-1.5.24 is important to get out, due to the regressions I put in 1.5.22. And it will be

Libtool release plan (was: Libtool apparantly removing path parameters on FreeBSD)

2006-05-10 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Olly, * Olly Betts wrote on Wed, May 10, 2006 at 04:38:08PM CEST: On 2006-05-10, Ralf Wildenhues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - there was actually a regression in 1.5.22 over 1.5.20 which caused some paths to be incorrectly removed on FreeBSD and some other BSD variants. Has since been