Re: Problems with libtool 2.2.2 and /bin/sh pointing to dash

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Peter,

On 22 Apr 2008, at 11:01, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> > > Was this behaviour present in libtool 1.5?
> >
> > No it wasn't, because libtool was generated in a two stage process  
> > which
> > required
> > calling ./libtool --config directly.
>
> I think you may be wrong. You can check the value of libtool variables
> in configure for libtool > 1.4. In 1.3 and earlier there was a  
> separate
> ltconfig script which was run, so those variables were not available.
> With 1.4 libtool's checks became part of the configure script  
> itself, so
> anything after AC_PROG_LIBTOOL can check the variables values.

ACK.  I just remember rewriting the whole thing many years ago, and then
not putting out a release for roughly the same amount of time :-D

> With 2.x, of course, it is preferred to use the vars directly,  
> creating
> libtool just to check these is expensive and pointless.


+1

Cheers,
        Gary
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