Subject: bug#18916: closed (bug#18903, bug#18910, bug#18916, bug#19633, bug#19881: Closing stale resolved bugs)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 15:00:04 +0000

Your bug report

#18916: libtool-2.4.3 caused autoconf test failure

which was filed against the libtool package, has been closed.

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Subject: bug#18903, bug#18910, bug#18916, bug#19633, bug#19881: Closing stale resolved bugs
From: Ileana Dumitrescu <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 17:58:15 +0300
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These bug reports are either not bugs or were resolved a decade ago.

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Subject: Re: libtool-2.4.3 caused autoconf test failure
From: Eric Blake <[email-masked]>
To: Bruce Dubbs <[email-masked]>, [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 16:11:49 -0600
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[adding libtool]

On 10/31/2014 10:54 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> From the test output:
> 
> Compatibility with other tools.
> 
> 501: Libtool                                  FAILED (foreign.at:61)
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> This was caused by libtool-2.4.3.  Using the identical instructions when
> libtool-2.4.2 is used, the test passes.

Thanks for the report.  Yes, autoconf should be taught to be more
tolerant of new libtool, but this is probably also worth investigating
if it is a libtool regression worth fixing for the upcoming 2.4.4.

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