Re: CC can be a program name *with arguments*

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> On Mar  3, 2005, Bob Friesenhahn <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > In making this decision, we must consider what existing Automake
> > does. If it searches for installed libtool by looking for a 'libtool'
> > program in the path, then there will be problems.
>
> Automake uses libtool the way it was designed to be used, namely,
> using the script created by the configure script of the package being
> built.

I was thinking about how configure often searches for autoconf and 
automake in order to maintain the package.  I guess it does not search 
for libtool since libtool files are not automatically maintained.

Bob
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