Re: Patch to add libtool support

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Johnny C. Lam wrote:

> Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> writes:
> > On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 02:58:52AM -0400, Johnny C. Lam wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > >   I've added support for building ncurses using libtool.  The patches
> > 
> > I've considered doing that - will review your patch - but only as a
> > configure option, since libtool has its own limitations.  Thanks (at
> > least this will force me to look more closely - I ignored the first
> > versions of libtool because they definitely did _not_ port).
> 
> I've regenerated the patches so that they are relative to the
> 5.1-20001009 sources and included them below.  I hope it eases the
> review of the patch.

thanks (I'll study it on the weekend - during the week I mostly just
respond to email for ncurses and work on other projects).  Your summary
sounds essentially what I recommended, but if it involves much testing,
I'd prefer to work on it for post-5.2

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