[Expat-bugs] [ expat-Bugs-863550 ] Update to libtool 1.5

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Bugs item #863550, was opened at 2003-12-20 10:05
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Category: Build control
Group: Feature Request
Status: Open
Resolution: None
>Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Greg Stein (gstein)
Summary: Update to libtool 1.5

Initial Comment:
Please update the libtool included with expat to version 1.5 
(stable).  It makes building on platforms such as Cygwin 
easier, as well as easing integration when combining expat 
with other modern projects.

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Comment By: Christian Ehrlicher (chehrlic)
Date: 2004-01-15 11:15

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Is the old libtool also responsible for this output when I
want to link against libexpat?
libtool: link: warning: `/usr/lib/libexpat.la' seems to be moved

I've build from src.rpm. And now in /usr/lib/libexpat.la the
libdir-path is /var/tmp/expat-buildroot/usr/lib which causes
this error. It would be fine if this would go away with the
'new' libtool


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Comment By: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Date: 2004-01-07 10:28

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Greg, can you try to get to this soon?  I'd like to release
a new version of Expat this month.

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2004-01-07 10:24

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bah, i just wasted a day or so because the libtool included
in the expat 1.95.7 is too old and does not work on current
mingw (i have 3.1.0)
it produces unusable libraries, and programs linked against
them crash in funny ways (gdb does not give a useful
backtrace...)

please release a new version with libtool 1.5, that should
work a whole lot better (i have 1.4e which seems to be a
alpha or beta of 1.5)

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2003-12-20 10:11

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This is easy to do, manually:

1) make distclean
2) Either libtoolize or update config.guess, config.sub, ltmain.sh files 
within conftools.  Manually copy the latest libtool.m4 into conftools.
3) autoheader && autoconf.

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