Re: Building ncurses with libtool (32/64 bit)

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Albert Chin wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 07:42:39PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Albert Chin wrote:
> >
> > My current understanding of it (and am still reading) is that it's done
> > to ensure that the files in the distribution are a particular version.
> > I'm looking into the possibility of providing a short script which would
> > use the system's copy of libtool.m4 (preferred from my standpoint for a
> > lot of reasons).
>
> libtool.m4 is integrated into configure so it's impossible to make
> use of it at runtime.

I understood that.  My point was that with a simple script it is possible
to regenerate configure with your favorite version of libtool.m4 (and
that would allow me to incorporate your local patch without other impact).

> I wouldn't worry about this. We'll keep our local patch.
>
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