Re: auto-inserting COPYING

2008-12-13 Thread Karl Berry
I think it would make Automake less convenient, which is why I chose against it, but that's of course only my opinion. I think the potential for confusion outweighs by far the trivial convenience, but that's of course only my opinion too. And yes, the only other sane semantics IMVHO w

Re: LT_PREREQ breaks autoreconf

2008-12-13 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 05:53:20PM CET: > According to Ralf Wildenhues on 12/13/2008 2:47 AM: > > with a test case of: > > LT_PREREQ([2.2.6]) > > AC_INIT > > LT_INIT > > > > It works in any case when I move LT_PREREQ after AC_INIT, > > That is the correct fix.

Re: LT_PREREQ breaks autoreconf

2008-12-13 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [adding bug-automake] According to Ralf Wildenhues on 12/13/2008 2:47 AM: > Hmm; I can reproduce this with Autoconf 2.63 but not with current git, Yes, current git changed things so that even prior to m4_init (called under the hood by AC_INIT), there

Re: auto-inserting COPYING

2008-12-13 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Karl, * Karl Berry wrote on Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 01:14:54AM CET: > according to NEWS it was actually deprecated in version 1.8. > > So maybe it's time to remove it, instead of adding the warning (as Ralf > so recently did)? Yes, the warning was added very recently, in 1.10.2 only, as a