Status of libtool 2.2.X?

[Braden McDaniel]

On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 11:21 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 05:20:30PM -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote:
> > A copy of the libtool script is typically included in a package.  
> > Breakage such as that patch fixes would only be incurred if  
> > libtoolize/autoreconf were run as part of the build process--something  
> > that simply shouldn't be happening in general for RPM builds.
> 
> If I parse that correctly, are you saying that autoreconf *shouldn't*
> be run as part of an RPM build?

Yes.

> I have found that it sometimes needs autoreconf if I patch the
> configure.ac script -- something which happens rather more frequently
> when porting to MinGW.  (After these patches go upstream then it won't
> be a problem of course).

You should be patching configure, not configure.ac.

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