Re: Solving our bootstrap woes

[Gary V . Vaughan]

Sold!  Please apply.

Are you sure that aclocal sorts m4 input alphabetically?  I wouldn't be 
surprised if it just pulls the files from disk in directory order 
(equivalent to mtime I think).  Or maybe they get m4_included in 
topographic order...

Either way, it only really affects libtool's own bootstrap, since we 
now remove old libtool.m4s from $prefix/share/aclocal.

On Thursday, January 15, 2004, at 12:16  am, Scott James Remnant wrote:

> This isn't a patch, it's just a new file to drop in the distribution as
> m4/lt~obsolete.m4.  Ok, it needs adding to EXTRA_DIST as well, but
> that's it.

Provided we bootstrap with automake 1.8 or newer it will get added 
automatically (by virtue of being m4_included).

I think we also don't need add it to pkgmacro_DATA, since it is just 
noise to libtool users, especially because it might wreak havoc if some 
future (or old!) version of aclocal manages to slurp it in before 
libtool.m4.

> I think the comment I've put in it explains how it works pretty well,
> basically instead of whatever you've got in
> /usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4 turning up in your aclocal.m4, you get
> this instead; which is harmless because the filename is asciibetically
> after anything else in m4/ so the m4_ifdef just expand to [].

Please add a comment near pkgmacro_DATA in Makefile.am to remind us not 
to install it too.

> Okay to commit?

Yep.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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