Re: Is libtool being maintained at all?

[Dalibor Topic]

Hi Bob,

thank you for your quick reply. Maybe my e-mails from my yahoo.com 
address just got trapped in Rob's spam filter. ;) I'll resubscribe to 
libtool mailing lists from this account.

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

> Libtool is certainly being maintained.  We have been unnofficially

That's good news. I've just discovered libtool a year ago, and I 
appreciate the work that has gone into it. Thank you all for your making 
this tool and keeping it alive.

We have a few small patches for libtool in kaffe's current CVS. So I'd 
like libtool to profit from the work that has gone into fixing the small 
issues, just like kaffe profits from using libtool in the first place. ;)

> relying on Robert Boehne to apply most of the patches.  We received
> mail from Robert on the libtool list on June 25th so he is still alive
> and well.  Perhaps he is just on vacation.  Even open source
> developers take vacation.

Thanks, for an outsider like me, it's hard to understand a project's 
internal social structure. I've got one more question, though: how do 
you handle external patches from distributors? Do you hunt down their 
patches trying to integrate their changes back into the CVS tree? Or do 
you wait till they contact you?

Here's a short list of patches I've found by browing the web:
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/devel/libtool/patches/
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/libtool/patches/
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/devel/libtool15/files/
http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/rawhide/1.0/i386/RedHat/RPMS/libtool-1.5-3.i386.html
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libt/libtool/libtool_1.4.3-10.diff.gz
etc.

Back to my own patch: I'll repost it to libtool-patches and post a patch 
ping on the libtool mailing list.

cheers,
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