Re: libtool.m4 option to use installed libtool

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:

> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > Hmm.  "Always use our own libtool" sounds a lot like some bug needed
> > this.  But then again, that line has been in there unchanged for six
> > years.  I wonder if it will break setups if we change this, it's like
> > a rope to save us from stupid errors rather than a necessity.
> >
> > Anybody have good reasons against changing this?
>
> Running the tests in an older libtool.m4 and then using a newer installed
> libtool seems like a waste.  If we want to do this, then we should probably
> skip all of the libtool tests at configure time and print a warning that
> LIBTOOL has been overridden in the environment.

Of course this may then cause the package to fail to compile since it 
may have been depending on results of tests executed in libtool.m4.

Bob
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