* Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 03:29:57AM CEST: > On Mon, 2 Jun 2008, Eric Blake wrote: >> >> What would the libtool folks think of a patch to make libtool start >> depending on gnulib, and make gnulib the master repository for the argz >> replacements? I'm not convinced that diverging libtool and gnulib is the >> best route yet, but I'm also not sure that libtool wants to drag in >> everything argz related. > > Having libtool depend on another project (in addition to autoconf and > automake) does not seem wise to me. It is not necessary for the libltdl > versions to always be the latest versions since they are for internal > use. It is only necessary that they work properly.
So then let's separate them. I don't see why Libtool can't just keep its one-file copy. It's no portability file, meaning that one can expect not to have many changes except for bug fixes. gnulib can have its separate, multi-file copy, which can evolve along glibc's. Cheers, Ralf
