Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:53:53 -0400
From: Don Ward <[email protected]>
Subject: [Patch-gnuradio] make configure.ac work with libtool 2.2
To: [email protected]
Sender: patch-gnuradio-bounces+eb=[email protected]

Libtool 2.2 appears to correctly handle interlibrary dependencies on Cygwin
and [[MinGW]].  With libtool 2.2, we no longer need to apply patches to
Makefiles before building on these systems.

Using libtool 2.2 with the current configure.ac produces many lines of
warnings when the newly-deprecated AC_PROG_LIBTOOL macro is used in
conjunction with certain other macros (such as GR_FORTRAN).  We can avoid
the warnings and still be able to use either libtool 1.5 or 2.2 with the
attached one-line patch to configure.ac.  This should be considered a
temporary measure until we are ready to require users who need to run
bootstrap to upgrade to libtool 2.2.

It would be convenient for Cygwin and [[MinGW]] users if future release
tarballs were prepared using libtool 2.2.  This would eliminate the need
for tarball users to install autotools and run ./bootstrap.

-- Don W.