Attn: cygport maintainer [was: Re: Libtool 2.2.2]

[Charles Wilson]

Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
> Charles Wilson wrote:
> I'm now looking at 2.2, what I mean is instead of (in libtool.m4):
> 
> AU_ALIAS([AC_PROG_LIBTOOL], [LT_INIT])
> AU_ALIAS([AM_PROG_LIBTOOL], [LT_INIT])
> 
> Do something like the following:
> 
> AU_DEFUN([AC_PROG_LIBTOOL], [
> LT_INIT
> LT_OUTPUT
> ])
> AU_DEFUN([AM_PROG_LIBTOOL], [
> LT_INIT
> LT_OUTPUT
> ])
> 
> AFAICS that would allow full compatibility with 1.5 behaviour after an
> autoreconf.

I'm not so sure. I still think that calling LT_OUTPUT immediately after 
LT_INIT is not exactly equivalent to 1.5 behavior. I think that is too 
early...but I don't know how to force a non-local insertion of 
LT_OUTPUT, and even if I did, I don't know how "far down" in 
configure.ac that non-local insertion should go.

Of course, if you KNOW of a package that needs libtool before configure 
is finished (I don't), you could easily test my assertion by manually 
inserting LT_OUTPUT immediately after A[CM]_PROG_LIBTOOL/LT_INIT, 
manually running autoreconf with libtool2.2, and see if it works...

But even so, this means that as part of cygport [*] you'd need to run 
autoupdate, which is not the current behavior.

[*] But again, my recommedation is that cygport should NOT run 
autoupdate in an automated way. Instead, the package maintainer should 
run it, inspect the results, and fold those changes into .src.patch.  In 
which case, manually adding LT_OUTPUT before generating .src.patch only 
when necessary rather than relying on autoupdate to do it automatically 
always even when unecessary, seems to be the better way to go.

>  But I see now that this would cause LT_OUTPUT to be added
> by autoupdate, which would generally be unnecessary. 

That's a drawback, all right.

> Is there another
> way to do this?

I don't know.

> True, but I don't think that's the primary reason to have only one
> libtool, and isn't the idea that it shouldn't be necessary to switch
> back and forth?

Well, yeah -- in a perfect world.

> | Besides, libtool-2.2 compatibility patches are the sort of thing
> | upstream maintainers like to see...
> 
> There is another case which might be tricky.  Some packages (namely
> Berkeley DB and KDE3) ship with libtool.m4 and then cat(1) it into
> aclocal.m4 (BDB) or acinclude.m4 (KDE3).  With 1.5, cygport simply
> copies the libtool.m4 (and ltmain.sh) over the shipped copy in these cases.
> 
> With 2.2, besides the change in location (the /usr/share/libtool/config
> subdir didn't exist in 1.5), there are now several libtool m4 macros.
> Besides ltdl.m4 and argz.m4 (AFAICS required only by ltdl.m4), are they
> all necessary for a working libtool.m4?

Correct. The gcc folks ran into this. FWICT, you need each of: 
libtool.m4, ltoptions.m4, ltsugar.m4, ltversion.m4, lt-obsolete.m4,

It is recommeded, instead of copying those contents into aclocal.m4, 
that instead you do:

m4_include([libtool.m4])
m4_include([ltoptions.m4])
m4_include([ltversion.m4])
m4_include([ltsugar.m4])
m4_include([lt~obsolete.m4])

> | Well, Ralf seems to agree.  I'd like to hear from a few other
> | maintainers before taking that plunge though. (For now, just don't
> | install the "new" libtool2.2 package, and you'll be fine).
> 
> Please do that ASAP so that I can make the necessary changes in cygport.

Sure...just waiting for more input.

> | So, "please remove the libtool1.5 dep from cygport. Full stop."
> 
> I don't see another choice for now, but if there becomes only one
> libtool package, I would add it back.

I have modified cygport's setup.hint on sources.

--
Chuck

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