<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.26.0"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 04:42 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <TT>> LT_INIT requires libtool v2 whereby xorg "lowest common denominator" is</TT> <TT>> v1.5.</TT> <TT>Oh, didn't know that.</TT> </BLOCKQUOTE> This is where the tool chain versions are specified. <A HREF="http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ModularDevelopersGuide#RequiredTools">http://wiki.x.org/wiki/ModularDevelopersGuide#RequiredTools</A> A few days ago Jeremy changed libtool min version from 1.5 to 2.2, I am trying to find out what led to this change. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <TT>> I suspect that in real life almost everyone uses v2. If I</TT> <TT>> understand correctly, when configured with v2, libtool copies a handful</TT> <TT>> of v2 macros in the m4 directory (only if available). This allows a</TT> <TT>> system with v1.5 to use the v2 macros.</TT> <TT>autoreconf should copy all used macros into aclocal.m4 and the templates</TT> <TT>for the libtool script, so that you don't need those on the build system.</TT> <TT>Any missing macro should be detected by way of m4_pattern_forbid or at</TT> <TT>“make dist” time. The version of libtool used should in theory matter</TT> <TT>only on the system the person doing autoreconf runs it on.</TT> </BLOCKQUOTE> Good, means no special case for libtool. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <TT>> I am considering upgrading all of xorg to libtool v2 (only formalizing</TT> <TT>> the current situation). I am interested in the feedback you may get from</TT> <TT>> builders on that matter.</TT> <TT>I would not expect any problem from people building from the tarballs</TT> <TT>due to the libtool version. It could be an issue when building from git</TT> <TT>though.</TT> </BLOCKQUOTE> Matthieu reported OpendBSD still requires to autoreconf using libtool 1.5 for about a year more. </BODY> </HTML>