Re: function-local variables in ltmain

[Albert Chin]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 12:29:13PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >* Albert Chin wrote on Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 09:56:43PM CEST:
> >
> >>On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 10:40:01AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >>
> >>>2) This looks somewhat ugly in the output, but to a certain extent, it
> >>>is possible to emulate local variables with m4sh: see below.
> >>
> >>Way ugly.
> >
> >Yep.
> 
> That doesn't matter.  The output of gcc is ugly too!  We should be 
> maintaining the source files (.m4sh), and anything that makes them 
> easier to read and edit is a good thing.
> 
> >>Just seems to make libtool harder to maintain.
> 
> Au contraire.  Once any such mechanism has been debugged, it makes 
> libtool easier to maintain... as has been the case with several of the 
> refactorings I've done as we progress towards 2.0.

But debugging libtool occurs with the _generated_ "libtool" script.
Making the output sane should help debugging, not hinder it. Is this
so much of a problem that we need such a big hammer to solve it? I
don't recall seeing enough PRs to consider it.

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albert chin (address@hidden)