Re: [PATCH] VPATH build of Libtool

[Gary V. Vaughan]

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Hi Ralf!

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
| I'm unsure about config/ltmain.sh, its handling is not consistent
| as of now.  Should it be created in the source or the build tree?
| - configure creates it in $top_builddir/config/ltmain.sh
| - `make dist' fails because it does not find it in the source tree:
|
| | make[2]: Entering directory `/home/ralf/lt/test-vpath/build/tests/cdemo'
| | make[2]: *** No rule to make target
`/home/ralf/lt/test-vpath/libtool/tests/cdemo/../../config/ltmain.sh', needed
by `distdir'.  Stop.
| | make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ralf/lt/test-vpath/build/tests/cdemo'

~From libtool.m4:

# _LT_PROG_LTMAIN
# ---------------
# In libtool itself `ltmain.sh' is in the build tree, but everything else
# ships it in the source tree, for completeness, if we find a copy in the
# build tree use that before falling back to auxdir.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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