Re: libtool devel works nicely

[Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>]

Robert Collins wrote:

> Chuck,
>     lovely wrapper scripts, they work beautifully (its what I used for
> libxml2 and libxslt - which I did so I could give you feedback).


That's good to hear.  So you exercised the whole 
automake/autoconf/libtool chain?  If so, then how did you put together 
your -src package for libx*?

(I ask merely because I'm curious: if you re-auto* a given source 
package, then there are LOTS of changes and your diff is very big. 
Alternatively, you can make minimum changes to high-level files like 
configure.in and Makefile.am -- resulting in a small diff -- and have 
your build script re-bootstrap during the 'prep' phase...but that 
complicates the 'mkpatch' phase. This latter approach is a real PITA -- 
but it's the only way to reliably generate a small patch that can be 
submitted to the upstream maintainers.  NOT that they would accept such 
a patch if it's generated by a non-regulation libtool or when they're 
not ready to move "up" to the most recent autoconf/automake...sigh)

--Chuck