Re: AM_GNU_GETTEXT(use-libtool) and Automake's "make distcheck"

[Simon Josefsson]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> This is fixed in automake-1.7.2. Thanks to Alexandre Duret-Lutz!

Thanks.

>> Why isn't AM_GNU_GETTEXT(use-libtool) the default when libtool is
>> used, btw?
>
> Because libtool can also use .a libraries without problems. Making
> AM_GNU_GETTEXT(use-libtool) the default would mean that some package
> maintainers would have to change their Makefiles to use ../intl/libintl.la
> instead of ../intl/libintl.a - a gratuitous change without any gain in
> functionality.

The reason I discovered the use-libtool switch was that libtool
complained that linking with .a archives was non-portable, although I
never encountered a platform were it was actually a problem (and I
tried it on cygwin, AIX, HP-UX and more).  If the warning has some
bearing maybe it makes sense to change the default (iff libtool is
used).  If the warning is useless, maybe it should be removed from
libtool.