Re: Proposed Autoconf 2.50 path
On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 01:19:02PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > I'm thinking it's about time we started making our autobuilders "just
> > cope" with packages that happen to not cope with the latest changes in
> > gcc3, libtool, autoconf and whatever other toolchain things have changed.
>
> As an example, the Hurd only
> works well with very early libtool versions and >= 1.3.5-5. It is quite
> annoying, because older versions are still in common use.
Thinking about it, this is probably another type of bug than you meant, as
most packages don't run libtoolize themself. But if they would, they would
need to build depend on libtool >= 1.3.5-5, allright. ;)
Thanks,
Marcus
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