Re: "~" in builddirs caused libtool to fail

[Peter O'Gorman]

On Sep 24, 2006, at 8:12 PM, Kurt Roeckx wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In Debian we recently allowed ~ in version numbers, where ~ could be
> used to sort after everything else.  This is for instance useful so  
> that
> 1.0~rc1 is a smaller version than 1.0.
>
> Using this seems to be breaking libtool, because it uses ~ for  
> something
> else.  Can someone take a look at this?

I'm pretty sure that I applied a patch sometime to allow ~ in the  
build dir name.

Here we are:
2004-01-25  Peter O'Gorman  <address@hidden>

        * ltmain.in: Move eval to after command separation to allow  
~ in paths.

Maybe it's been broken again? Can you please provide ./libtool -- 
version for the packages in question.

Thanks,
Peter