Re: ltmain-dunno-yo-lib-make-specific-01.patch

[Gary V . Vaughan]

On Sunday 05 August 2001 12:31 am, Guido Draheim wrote:
> There are five different places saying
>   echo "*** Warning: This library needs some functionality provided by
> $deplib." echo "*** I have the capability to make that library
> automatically link in when" echo "*** you link to this library.  But I can
> only do this if you have a" echo "*** shared version of the library, which
> you do not appear to have." but each one is provoked by a different check.
> They should be different.

Indeed.  I had planned to look into this after reading your FAQ.  Honest.

> The following patch changes the first "warning:" line into something
> more specific that points maintainers to the actual kind of check that
> failed during execution. Furthermore it adds one or two lines to the
> end of this message block explaining things to the user where this
> message had been found not quite intelligible in many cases.

Sweet!  Thanks.

> Hope this one gets into cvs soon.

Already committed.  Was that soon enough?  It's a pity the dunno-yo-lib 
section from the FAQ will need amendment now.  I really liked that bit :-D

Cheers,
        Gary.

P.S.  Don't forget to send a ChangeLog entry... I made one up for you this 
time.
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