At 09:12 AM 4/6/00, Guy Harris wrote:
On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 08:01:08AM +0100, Ben Fowler wrote:
>
> >> > I have just patched my 0.8.3 tree to 0.8.4 using the (tiny)
> >> > patch provided. I was unable to compile 0.8.4 in this way
> >> > because after the patch aclocal.m4 was out of date and
> >> > my system was not strong enough to make it. I got 0.8.4
> >> > to compile by 'touch'ing aclocal.m4.
>
> ... which had not been modified between 0.8.3 and 0.8.4 .
At least according to the
http://ethereal.zing.org/distribution/old-versions/ethereal-patch-0.8.3-to-0.8.4.diff.bz2
file, it *had* been modified between 0.8.3 and 0.8.4.
You are right about that, but my technique did work ...
What I must have had in mind was trying to describe a situation
when Makefile thought that a dependency was not satisfied when in
fact it was. The issue is (or rather was) that the contents of
aclocal.m4 were not out of date w.r.t. to the contents of configure.in
and acinclude.m4 .
To say that I could have expressed that better is a bit of an
understatement. My point then was that people who downloaded
tarballs (and patches) were not developers (as I was not at that
time) and could not be expected to have a working libtool on
their system. There was some discussion at the time, which
I thought reached a wholesome conclusion.
My point now is that libtool is a tricky thing to install unless
you have an up to date rpm of it & I thought that it might be
useful to explain why.
I am grateful for your having picked up on this & I feel chastised
in the sense of having been brought one stage nearer a
state of purity.
Ben
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