On 9/20/2010 4:15 AM, Peter Rosin wrote: > But is it really a requirement? If you are referring to libtool commit > v2.2.10-92-g92d24b3, then that patch adds an /optional/ dependency on > autobuild. If you are a maintainer doing a release of libtool, it > probably is a requirement, but are you not simply building the released > version (perhaps with a few patches)? I know that I certainly have built > git libtool many times when working on it, and I do not have autobuild > installed.
cygport -- unless overridden -- always runs 'autoreconf' on a package. autoreconf runs aclocal, which means autobuild.m4 must be available; hence, *the way we routinely (re)build libtool*, autobuild is required. Ironically, the main reason cygport autoreconf's everything is to ensure that libtoolized packages use cygwin's customized version of...libtool. -- Chuck
