Re: [RFT PATCH v4 0/8] Sysroot series

[Paolo Bonzini]

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 22:13, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> More issues:
>
> - the part of ltmain starting with
>        # Collect and forward deplibs of preopened libtool libs
>
> will source .la files but looks like it mistreats = in $dependency_libs

Ok.

> - is it intended that the = remain in the .la files after these are
> moved to their final location on the host system?  Or should
> --mode=finish remove them?

I thought so, but --mode=finish takes a directory. :/

Should I do that on all .la files?

> - should we provide a minimal patch for vendors 2.2.10 (or earlier
> versions, maybe even 1.5.x) that makes libtool not barf upon = in .la
> files, for smoother upgrades (given that 2.2.12 could contain other
> issues not making for a smooth upgrade path)?

Yes, especially if --mode=finish does nothing.  I'll see who maintains
libtool at Red Hat, maybe he can relieve me of that part. :)

Paolo