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Re: [libmudflap] Why was the toplevel libtool.m4 copied into acinclude.m4?

From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>
To: Kelley Cook <kcook at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Cc: GCC Mailing List <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 14:10:54 -0500
Subject: Re: [libmudflap] Why was the toplevel libtool.m4 copied into acinclude.m4?
References: <419CE871.4080909@gcc.gnu.org>

hi -


On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 01:22:41PM -0500, Kelley Cook wrote:
> Does someone recall the reason why back in January 2003 the toplevel 
> libtool copied into acinclude.m4?  This seems to be done for a purpose, 
> but I haven't been able to determine what the reason was. [...]

I'm afraid I don't remember the specifics, though I believe I was also
testing on Solaris at that time.

> [...]
> If you delete the 928 line acinclude.m4 and put an ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS=I .. 
> in Makefile.am followed by autoreconf with ac2.59/am1.9.3 [...]

Please go ahead and make the change, especially if you can test it
on a Solaris box.

> [...]
> The new version still bootstraps on i686-pc-cygwin with 
> --enable-libmudflap (though this is probably a poor test as almost every 
> libmudflap test fails under cygwin).

One of these days, I'll sit down with my old Windows laptop ...


- FChE

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