libltdl update

[Michael Koch]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:35:32AM -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
> >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Koch <konqueror@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> Michael> I updated libjava/libltdl to libltdl from libtool 1.5.0. This
> Michael> fixes PR libgcj/13056. I have found no regression yet with
> Michael> this patch. Others (namely Andreas Tobler, Thomas Fitzsimmons
> Michael> and Mohan Embar) have pre-tested this patch too and found
> Michael> nothing critical. Andreas found one issue on PowerPC and
> Michael> provided a little patch which is included.
> 
> A few comments about this.
> 
> First, we have a history of "cvs import"ing libltdl.  I'd prefer it if
> we kept doing this, as this makes it easier for us to see what changes
> we have relative to the upstream libltdl.  Especially as this import
> has a local patch.

Will look at local changes.

> Once it is imported and merged back to the trunk, we can apply
> Andreas' patch in a separate commit.  Are there other local changes in
> this patch?

No, just the pure libtool 1.5.0 libltdl.

> What platforms was this tested on?

i86 Linux, powerpc linux, solaris and mingw crosscompiler.

> I notice that one of our local changes no longer appears -- ltdl.c no
> longer includes <gc.h>.  What's the story there?  (An import will
> detect these sorts of things...)

Hmm, currently I dont see what just including "gc.h" would change ...

> If you've never done an import, send me email and I can walk you
> through it.  I'd like to understand the other issues first though.

That would be very nice.



Michael