Libtool 1.5 vs 2.2 (Was: Re: [PATCH] Remove dolt)

[Gaetan Nadon]

On Mon, 2010-09-20 at 16:08 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> Maintaining a Linux platform that builds its components from git [1] 
> that until half a year ago used libtool 1.5 I also ran into the
> problem 
> that more and more components no longer work with libtool 1.5
> (including 
> several X components). My general impression at that time was that no 
> upstream tests its code with libtool 1.5 anymore.
> 

In fact, creating tarballs is not a centralized process. Any developer
can create and publish
a tarball, not being aware of the libtool version. There is nothing
wrong with that, so as long
as the modules configuration specify minimum versions.

This is done explicitly for Autoconf with AC_INIT but implicitly for
automake and libtool by
using statements that can only be found at a specific version, or up.


> Also note that bumping the libtool requirement would affect only
> people
> building from git, not normal users building from tarballs.
> 


Thanks, that's the kind of info I was looking for.
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