Re: Moving creation of libtool/ltmain.sh to config.status

[Tim Van Holder]

> > - during config.status, simply do ltmain.in->ltmain.sh (if needed) and
> > libtool.in-> libtool.
> 
> Please don't.  The plan is to eventually start using libtool for link
> tests during configure.  Deferring its creation to config.status time
> means we won't be able to do that.  Unless you're only talking about
> the configuration script of the libtool package here.

Ah - from what Gary had said previously, I thought he wanted libtool to
be created by config.status.  Trying to do that just for the libtool
package would seem impractical, as it requires several changes to
libtool.m4.  So I'll just leave things as they are.
I would definitely like to have ltmain.sh generated by configure directly
though, rather than by calling make, as that can lead to all sorts of
loops (where the Makefile tries to update itself and ends up calling
config.status --recheck, which calls make, etc.).