Re: Removal of libtool1.4

To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Removal of libtool1.4
From: Warren Turkal <wt@midsouth.rr.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 01:45:18 -0600
Message-id: <[🔎] bu2s2e$fp1$1@sea.gmane.org>
References: <[🔎] 1073952196.21793.565.camel@descent.netsplit.com> <[🔎] 87n08svvuo.fsf@kreon.lan.henning.makholm.net> <[🔎] bu10gb$j4v$1@sea.gmane.org> <[🔎] 87ad4rakyn.fsf@kreon.lan.henning.makholm.net> <[🔎] 87isjfab62.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>

Russ Allbery wrote:

> The internals have changed completely, so any configure script with
> hooks deep into the insides of Autoconf (XEmacs is one of the best
> examples) will fail miserably and porting to 2.5x will be extremely
> difficult.

If the configure script is using internals of autoconf, I would have to
argue that it is a bug since autoconf docs specifically say that only what
is documented it fair for use.

wt
-- 
Warren Turkal
President, GOLUM, Inc.
http://www.golum.org

Reply to:

Follow-Ups:
- Re: Removal of libtool1.4
  - From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>

References:
- Removal of libtool1.4
  - From: Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>
- Re: Removal of libtool1.4
  - From: Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net>
- Re: Removal of libtool1.4
  - From: Warren Turkal <wt@midsouth.rr.com>
- Re: Removal of libtool1.4
  - From: Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net>
- Re: Removal of libtool1.4
  - From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>

Prev by Date: Re: Namespaces, was: summary of software licenses in non-free
Next by Date: Re: Top 5 things that aren't in Debian but should be :-)
Previous by thread: Re: Removal of libtool1.4
Next by thread: Re: Removal of libtool1.4
Index(es):
- Date
- Thread