[Guile-commits] GNU Guile branch, master, updated. 8a8d0ca2fdc202ffef620fd7d8961a4d43ea9c95

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commit 8a8d0ca2fdc202ffef620fd7d8961a4d43ea9c95
Author: Neil Jerram <address@hidden>
Date:   Fri Jun 5 00:06:16 2009 +0100

    State and explain dependency on libtool 2.2
    
    * HACKING: Updated to recommend libtool 2.2 and anti-recommend libtool
      1.5.26.

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Summary of changes:
 HACKING |    9 +++++++--
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index f6d5185..ffe04a8 100644
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -59,8 +59,9 @@ Automake --- a system for automatically generating Makefiles 
that
 
 libtool --- a system for managing the zillion hairy options needed
        on various systems to produce shared libraries.  Available in
-       "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libtool";.  Version 1.5.26 (or
-       later) is needed for correct AIX support.
+       "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libtool";.  Version 2.2 (or
+       later) is recommended (for correct AIX support, and correct
+       interaction with the Gnulib module for using libunistring).
 
 gettext --- a system for rigging a program so that it can output its
         messages in the local tongue.  Guile presently only exports
@@ -88,6 +89,10 @@ have been known to cause problems, and a short description 
of the problem.
 - autoreconf from autoconf prior to 2.59 will run gettextize, which
   will mess up the Guile tree.
 
+- libtool 1.5.26 does not know that it should remove the -R options
+  that the Gnulib libunistring and havelib modules generate (because
+  gcc doesn't actually support -R).
+
 - (add here.)
 
 


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