Re: Small fix for 1.5.16 to turn off installation on default

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Dalibor, Andreas, others,

* Dalibor Topic wrote on Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 02:04:57PM CEST:
> 
> I've updated Kaffe [1] CVS head to libtool 1.5.16 and noticed that it 
> broke make distcheck of Kaffe by installing and leaving libltdl files 
> around in $prefix/share/libtool, which 1.5.14 didn't do.

* Andreas Schwab wrote on Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 06:48:10PM CEST:
> As a user of the libltdl library I surely don't want to install the
> libltdl data files as part of my project.

You are both correct.  This is a regression from 1.5.14.  :-(
It's present in branch-2-0 and HEAD as well.  It's also a very serious
bug for distributions, as it might go unnoticed and then hurt completely
unrelated packages.

I am very sorry for this.  I can push out a 1.5.18 with one of your
fixes, but I don't think I can manage to do it this weekend and I'm gone
most of next week.

Regards,
Ralf

PS: I have applied this patch to HACKING (HEAD, branch-2-0):

2005-04-29  Ralf Wildenhues  <address@hidden>

        * HACKING: Updated.

Index: HACKING
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/libtool/libtool/HACKING,v
retrieving revision 1.16
diff -u -r1.16 HACKING
--- HACKING     26 Apr 2005 11:55:12 -0000      1.16
+++ HACKING     29 Apr 2005 06:27:35 -0000
@@ -380,8 +380,9 @@
   fetch new versions of the files that are maintained outside of
   libtool.
 
-* Run `make distcheck'.  If there are any problems, fix them and start
-  again.
+* Run `make distcheck' and `make distcheck
+  DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS=--disable-ltdl-install'.  If there are any
+  problems, fix them and start again.
 
 * Run ./commit from the source tree.