Re: libtool-1.9b feedback

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Bruno Haible wrote:

> On MacOS X 10.3.5 (Darwin 7.5.0), two tests fail:

Two tests failing seems to be exceedingly good for current development 
libtool.  I see ten tests failing and something like 12 tests skipped 
for Solaris 9.

It is clear to me that while CVS libtool is significantly structurally 
improved, much of its portability has been lost, and it is more 
brittle.  We need to make a major effort to re-qualify it on available 
platforms.

> You cannot expect that a libtool beta tester uses an unreleased
> (and presumably buggy) autoconf snapshot. (I don't want to destabilize my
> entire system, I only wanted to test libtool!)

It is an interesting problem.  CVS libtool depends on CVS Automake 
which depends on CVS Autoconf.  It is a spiral which is very difficult 
to get out of.

Bob
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