HEAD status report [Was Re: Some DJGPP tweaks]

[Gary V . Vaughan]

On Thursday 28 June 2001  8:54 pm, Tim Van Holder wrote:
> > I think the latter is best.  Otherwise libtool would end up
> > getting out of
> > sync with the canonical release.
>
> Okido.  I'll try to spin a little patch tonight or tomorrow
> morning.

Well, I guess I can hold off 1.4b a little longer ;-)

In all seriousness, I think that HEAD has gained enough code to warrant my 
first (late!) monthly release this weekend.  Since we are already more-orless 
in feature freeze on HEAD after the MLB merge, I hope we can shake the bugs 
out with 2 or three monthly alpha releases and aim for 1.5 before the end of 
September.

FYI, I have cleared the backlog in libtool-patches now, though I have a lot 
of messages unread in address@hidden and address@hidden

> > > But first this small one: not all systems have a working ln -s,
> > > so don't even try it.
> >
> > I'm not sure even `cp -p' is optimally portable.  Is there any
> > reason why we
> > can't try `ln -s' and fall back if it fails?
>
> Yep.  [[explanation snipped]]
>
> Or you could duplicate autoconf's test for ln -s and decide based
> on that, but that seems overkill for a simple bootstrap.

Yuck!  I've taken the opportunity to rework the bootstrap script slightly and 
remove some of the redundancy that was in there.  Thanks for the patch!

Cheers,
        Gary.
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