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[sr #108503] Running autoscan in a directory with ltmain.sh produces conflicting warnings with libtoolize about AC_PROG_RANLIB

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To: Zack Weinberg <INVALID.NOREPLY <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#42313: closed (bug#42313: [sr #108503] Running autoscan in a
 directory with ltmain.sh produces conflicting warnings with libtoolize
 about AC_PROG_RANLIB)
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2024 15:59:02 +0000

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#42313: [sr #108503] Running autoscan in a directory with ltmain.sh produces conflicting warnings with libtoolize about AC_PROG_RANLIB

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

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From: Ileana Dumitrescu <ileanadumitrescu95 <at> gmail.com>
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Cc: egall <at> gwmail.gwu.edu, zackw <at> panix.com, akim.demaille <at> gmail.com,
 pho <at> cielonegro.org
Subject: bug#42313: [sr #108503] Running autoscan in a directory with
 ltmain.sh produces conflicting warnings with libtoolize about AC_PROG_RANLIB
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2024 18:56:56 +0300

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Thank you for forwarding this bug report! The fix has been applied to
libtool's development branch with a new test file.

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/libtool.git/commit/?h=development&id=b165ea8e0a165be58da1af7c6a0ac5e9de1f8eff

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From: Zack Weinberg <INVALID.NOREPLY <at> gnu.org>
To: Zack Weinberg <zackw <at> panix.com>, Eric Gallager <egall <at> gwmail.gwu.edu>,
 Akim Demaille <akim.demaille <at> gmail.com>, bug-libtool <at> gnu.org,
 PHO <pho <at> cielonegro.org>, bug-autoconf <at> gnu.org
Subject: [sr #108503] Running autoscan in a directory with ltmain.sh produces
 conflicting warnings with libtoolize about AC_PROG_RANLIB
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 14:42:35 -0400 (EDT)

Update of sr #108503 (project autoconf):

                  Status:                    None => Invalid                
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #1:

This is a bug in libtool.m4, not in autoconf.  AC_PROG_RANLIB is not obsolete.
 Libtool's internal macro _LT_CMD_OLD_ARCHIVE inlines the definition of
AC_PROG_RANLIB, but there's no good reason for it to do this.  (Maybe a _very_
long time ago AC_PROG_RANLIB didn't use AC_CHECK_TOOL?  If so, it would have
been before the beginning of the VCS history in 2001, though.)

If I manually change _LT_CMD_OLD_ARCHIVE to do AC_REQUIRE([AC_PROG_RANLIB])
instead of what it does, then autoscan stops suggesting the addition of
AC_PROG_RANLIB.

I'll bounce this to the libtool maintainers.

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