[ please Cc: me ] Hi Geoff,
* Geoff Keating wrote on Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 03:37:07AM CEST: > On 30/06/2005, at 6:26 PM, David Edelsohn wrote: > > >Geoff> Does anyone mind if I update libtool to the latest released version, > >Geoff> 1.5.18, and regenerate everything with automake 1.9.5? > > > > If everyone agrees to go forward with this > > Oh, I should have said: "and if you don't mind, how do you feel > about a GCC project fork of libtool?" I would be very happy if we could fold back many of the differences between pristine Libtool and GCC's version back into Libtool proper. I realize Libtool's side has not been the easiest on GCC demands in the past. Personally, I am quite happy to re-think some of the decisions made, but I am not alone. Also, Libtool's pace of development does not match that of GCC, unfortunately. Regarding Fortran 90/95, there is a proposed patch for support, albeit for branch-2-0/HEAD only. Just to make you aware before they hit you: some of the patches GCC Libtool incorporated were only put in branch-2-0 or HEAD of Libtool, so they won't be present in 1.5.18. (shameless plug: it would be really cool if PR 5291 could be fixed eventually. I wonder if the idea at the end of [1] could work, but I really don't know enough about GCC yet to try it out.) Regards, Ralf [1] <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-libtool/2005-03/msg00153.html>
