Re: gettext patches for cygwin #5: misc

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Charles,

* Charles Wilson wrote on Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 05:00:20PM CET:
> Bruno Haible wrote:
> >
> >The gettext CVS already uses libtool-1.5.20.

> I guess you just manually update the appropriate files when you upgrade? 
>  That may not be as simple as you like once libtool-2.0 hits the 
> streets; there are several .m4 files that (sometimes, only if necessary) 
> are copied into the project by libtoolize, incl. libtool.m4, ltdl.m4, 
> argz.m4, lt~obsolete.m4, ...)

Yes, but when in doubt you can just include them all.  That *should* not
matter.  libtoolize not always installing all of them *should* be an
optimization issue, since not all of them will be needed.

OTOH, then relying on Automake-created Makefile's to pick *all* of them
up is dangerous: through aclocal it will be mostly smart enough to only
take those with macros you actually need.  And, given that currently the
set of files you need depends on the aclocal version used..

Thanks for pointing this out!  We should maybe rethink just
force-needing lt~obsolete.m4 all the time.  Good thing we haven't
released 2.0 yet..

Cheers,
Ralf