GNU bug report logs - #11283
libtoolize --install is undocumented

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Package: libtool;

Reported by: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>

Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 23:03:04 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Cc: libvir-list <at> redhat.com, bug-gnulib <bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org>,
	"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange <at> redhat.com>, bug-libtool <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: [libvirt] autogen.sh broken on RHEL5
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:27:58 -0600

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[adding bug-libtool for a doc bug]

On 04/19/2012 03:42 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> [adding bug-gnulib]
> 
> On 04/19/2012 03:51 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>
>>
>> $ ./autogen.sh  --system
>> Running ./configure with --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --libdir=/usr/lib64 
>> running bootstrap...
>> ./bootstrap: Bootstrapping from checked-out http://libvirt.org sources...
>> ./bootstrap: consider installing git-merge-changelog from gnulib
>> ./bootstrap: getting gnulib files...
>> ./bootstrap: autopoint --force
>> Copying file build-aux/config.rpath
>> running: libtoolize --copy --install
>> libtoolize: unrecognized option `--install'
>> Try `libtoolize --help' for more information.
>>
>>
>> There is no such '--install' option - is that even needed - AFAIK that is
>> the default behaviour ?

According to NEWS, 'libtoolize --install' was added in libtool 1.9b (in
2004); however, 'info libtool "invoking libtoolize"' on libtool 2.4
still fails to document this option.  I also checked the latest
libtool.git, where it is still missing, eight years later.

It would be nice to have this documentation added, along with hints of
the appropriate workaround for libtool 1.5.22 still in use in RHEL 5,
and still as the minimum version of libtool supported by gnulib.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake <at> redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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Changed bug title to 'libtoolize --install is undocumented' from '[libvirt] autogen.sh broken on RHEL5' Request was from Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Thu, 19 Apr 2012 23:10:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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