Re: [PATCH] bootstrap warning

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Gary,

* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 12:55:47PM CEST:
> 
> >Besides the proposed patch below, it might be helpful to list
> >config/ltmain.sh in CLEANFILES in Makefile.am in order to remove
> >them from old build dirs?
> 
> I keep a separate buildtree to take advantage of GNU make's VPATH
> facility.  But we now maintain config/ltmain.sh in the source tree
> as it is a distributed file, and hence normally maintained by the
> bootstrap script too.

Yes, I noticed the change that ltmain.sh is now in the source tree.
What I meant was a little different: it took me some time to notice
that an old config/ltmain.sh was still lurking in my old build tree
(VPATH'ed), and it caused broken libtool scripts.

> That said, I've amended bootstrap to remove config/ltmain.sh near
> the start to make sure make doesn't end up working with a version
> from a previous build.

Yes, and everyone updating across that change will have to remove all
ltmain.sh files from all old build trees they want to re-use by hand
once.  Or start off with clean build trees.  That's why leaving in a
CLEANFILES entry for a while is not perfect, but IMVHO not such a bad
idea as it does not hurt.  Or put a note somewhere (did I just not see
such a note?) to that extent.

Regards,
Ralf