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Re: libtool devel works nicely
- From: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- To: Robert Collins <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Cc: cygwin-apps at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 20:23:44 -0500
- Subject: Re: libtool devel works nicely
- References: <018a01c18fa9$267ebe50$0200a8c0@lifelesswks>
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