updating libtool, etc.

[Kelley Cook]

> Does anyone mind if I update libtool to the latest released version,  
> 1.5.18, and regenerate everything with automake 1.9.5?

Sounds great if you can get it to work.

I had experimented with doing it earlier in the year, before Paolo completely redid the 
libjava Makefile.am to compile directories at once thus finally eliminating the 
huge commandline length problems that continually crept up for various shells.

The main problem I had then, was that the then current libtool did not know anything about fortran 95, 
which promptly blew up.

Finally, I was just waiting for the RSN automake 1.9.6 release to update the tree as that version has the 
FSF address updates.  Though 1.9.5 wouldn't really a big deal, as by 1.9.5, the autotools folks were given 
the OK to drop the copyright headers from all the m4 macro which had the side benefit of dropping the FSF 
address from its generated files.  1.9.6 will include the updated copyright in its helper files, such as 
COPYING, depcomp and compile.  But manually updating them from automake CVS it would accomplish the same thing.

Kelley Cook