GNU bug report logs - #38305
Typo in libtool/m4/libtool.m4

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Package: libtool;

Reported by: "Green, Paul" <Paul.Green <at> stratus.com>

Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 23:05:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Mike Frysinger <vapier <at> gentoo.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: "Green, Paul" <Paul.Green <at> stratus.com>
To: "bug-libtool <at> gnu.org" <bug-libtool <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Typo in libtool/m4/libtool.m4
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 23:02:59 +0000

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Gentle libtool maintainers,

While reading libtool.m4, I noticed that there are two spellings of the variable "old_archive_from_new_cmds". Most references to this variable use lower-case letters. But 3 references, all within "os2" sections, refer to the variable as "old_archive_From_new_cmds". Note the capital "F".

Perhaps the OS/2 shell is case-insensitive and this typo doesn't matter in the OS/2 environment. But I still think it should be corrected, because anyone searching for all references to "old_archive_from_new_cmds" will overlook the 3 references made by the os2 configuration code.

Sincerely,
Paul Green
Sr. Technical Consultant (Retired)
Stratus Technologies, Inc.


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