[Expat-discuss] libtool-1.5, autoconf-2.57, automake-1.73, please upgrade

[Greg Stein]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 08:05:18AM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> Recently, libtool-1.5 was released.
> Would be great if all of the expat maintainers could
> update their build systems as soon as possible.

Hmm. Haven't looked at it yet. I don't know that we're really stressing for
a new libtool, but I'll put this on the backburner. It might be useful for
some other projects, too. But I'm also leery of switching something like
Expat over to "new" code. Expat gets installed all over the place by a great
many people. As a result, it seems prudent to be a bit conservative.

> libtool-1.5 depends on autoconf 2.57 and (if someone
> want to make another attempt to make use of automake)
> automake-1.73

Not a chance on automake. Don't even get me started...

> >From the Cygwin announcement:
> ===
> At long last, the super spiffy auto-import-based, mostly "just like
> unix" DLL support for cygwin is available in the official, stable, 
> libtool release.  Now is the time to start bugging your favorite 
> upstream maintainers to update their packages to the latest autotools -- 
> and in most cases, they'll get cygwin and mingw DLLs for free.
> ===

Ah. Interesting. Well, I'd be quite happy to see some patches for the new
libtool and autoconf, and then how those reflect out to the cygwin stuff.
But given that I don't use any of that technology, I won't be able to test
or develop the patches.

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/