Re: Building ncurses with libtool (32/64 bit)

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Kevin Ryde wrote:

> Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > perhaps.  But there's no AC_REQUIRE connecting any of the pieces.
> > If there were an AC_REQUIRE, the expected behavior would be to
> > force AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to expand before the macro.  Since there is
> > none, it should expand within.
>
> If we're talking about libtool 1.5, then notice the first thing
> AC_PROG_LIBTOOL does is an AC_REQUIRE of _AC_PROG_LIBTOOL.  :-(

rofl...

> You might get the effect you want by having the conditional at the
> top-level in configure.in, rather than within a macro.  Beware of
> standard macros which then only run under that conditional too.

I suppose so.  Logically the place to fix the problem would be in
autoconf.  I doubt that will happen, but in reading the documentation
found no mention of this.

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