Re: how to modify configure?

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Péntek, Eric,

* Eric Blake wrote on Tue, May 26, 2009 at 02:00:19PM CEST:
> According to Péntek Imre on 5/26/2009 5:19 AM:
> > I want to propagate this patch backward to a permanent file:
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdevelop/+bug/253286/comments/32
> > Unfortunately I am not able to trace this bug back any further. Can you 
> > give 
> > me a hint where can I find the appropriate file, or how can I find the 
> > filename in 
> > my kdevelop project? Thank you in advance.
> 
> That snippet comes from libtool, not autoconf.  You are better off asking
> on the libtool list, but my initial impression is that this is probably
> something that we have already fixed when we made libtool's definition of
> lt_echo be smarter and not require a sed prepass.  Therefore, the best way
> to fix your bug is to use newer libtool.

 From what I can tell, the issue is plainly that their ltmain.sh and the
libtool macros used (from libtool.m4 and other files) were not in sync.

Cheers,
Ralf