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Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 22:05:34 -0500
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Robert Collins wrote:

> Dll number - there is a standard, and if you grab the hacked up libtool
> from chucks site, you will automagically create .dll's to that standard.
> 


I don't think we can recommend that official ports be built with unofficial 
tools (Corinna's sharutils requirement for openSSH notwithstanding).  For 
experimental ports, sure -- but not official ones, until one of the 
following two things happen:

a) Gary folds your changes into the official libtool, and then we release 
an official libtool package based on that.

or

b) we make your hacked libtool into an official package and don't wait for 
Gary.

In either case, we still need the autoconf-2.13/2.52 automake-1.4p5/1.5 
thing worked out -- e.g. the example I created a few weeks ago.

BUT....it's probably best that including THAT auto*nightmare wait until we 
have a real -src packaging standard.

(Yep, that's me, the one-note-charlie...)

--Chuck