Re: Update libtool?

[Peter O'Gorman <peter@pogma.com>]

Hi Ralf,

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Peter O'Gorman wrote on Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 06:26:15PM CEST:
>> Jack Howarth wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 11:17:03AM -0500, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
>>>> I wonder what the chances are of moving mainline gcc to a newer libtool
>>>> version? Introducing the darwin bits piecemeal would not be particularly
>>>> fun.
>>>     You are going to fix this on gcc trunk in any case, right?
>> If there is a consensus that now is not the time to update libtool in
>> trunk, then I will have to :)
> 
> First off, I am not in a position to decide anything here, so the
> following is just my two cents:
> 
> I would be a bit concerned to update libtool in branch-4_3.  Is this
> issue a regression?

I have no intention of asking that libtool be updated in the 4.3 branch.

I do not consider it a regression, it has always been broken on Mac OS X
when using dwarf2.

> I haven't tried GCC trunk with libtool 2.2.4 yet, but I guess that
> should be reasonably smooth.  (Of course I'd be willing to try.)

I am also willing to try.

> 
> AFAICS there are no GCC-specific changes in these files:
> libtool.m4 ltmain.sh lt~obsolete.m4 ltoptions.m4 ltsugar.m4 ltversion.m4
> (there has been a patch to libtool.m4 but it was subsequently backed out
> again.)

Good to know. Thanks.

Peter
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