Re: fix path search initialisation bugs [libtool--gary--1.0--patch-9]

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hallo Ralf!

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>>Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>>
>>>* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 05:01:01PM CET:
>>>
>>>>Okay to commit?
>>>
>>>This is getting more and more complicated..
>>>but yes.
>>
>>There is an alternative to the complicated part of this patch.  We
>>could move config/ltmain.sh out of $top_srcdir/config and trade a few
>>more files in $top_srcdir for a simpler libtoolize?
>>
>>Now that I think about it, it does seem sensible to make the $top_srcdir
>>layout of installed files used by libtoolize match their layout in the
>>installation tree, which will make libtoolizes life a whole lot easier
>>all round.  Shall we aim at that instead of this patch?
> 
> 
> I'm not so sure things *will* get easier that way.

Sure they do... it saves 42 lines of code in libtoolize infact :-)
Patch to follow.

> Would it not suffice to put all the testsuite tests which would need
> this, into `installcheck'?  Would that defeat some purpose?

I'd rather be able to tell that the latest libtool is broken *before* I
install it over the old one!

Cheers,
        Gary.
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