Re: symlinked libltdl and aclocal

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hallo Ralf,

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Symlinking libltdl into a project (as in)
>   libtoolize --ltdl
>
> is pretty stupid when later on aclocal decides it needs to run in
> libltdl/ -- it'll try to write in the aclocal.m4 file that can be
> reached through the symlink, instead of removing the symlink before
> writing.  This may happen in the non-subpackage case (whenever that'll
> work), but I believe it can also trigger when AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR is
> shared between the packages.
>
> Bug in aclocal?  I think so.

Oooh.  Nice catch!

For compatibility with older aclocal, I guess we need to work around
that by having libtoolize always copy aclocal.m4 with --ltdl, even
if --copy wasn't specified? :-/

Cheers,
        Gary.
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