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Re: GNU libtool-2.4.4 released [stable]
From: |
Gary V. Vaughan |
Subject: |
Re: GNU libtool-2.4.4 released [stable] |
Date: |
Tue, 2 Dec 2014 08:22:07 +0000 |
Hi Lawrence,
> On 2 Dec 2014, at 08:05, Lawrence Velázquez <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On Dec 1, 2014, at 5:39 AM, Gary V. Vaughan <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Yes, as you discovered, starting with Libtool-2.4.3 GNU M4 is required by
>> libtoolize, because we now dynamically run the configure.ac through it to
>> reliably detect build characteristics (as opposed to earlier releases which
>> grepped and sedded through aclocal.m4 and configure.ac looking for magic
>> strings heuristically).
>
> What minimum version of M4 is required?
>
> vq
Anything that works with modern Autoconf should be fine.
I haven't tested Libtool against every combination, but (more than 8 years old)
1.4.6 comes with Mac OS X 10.10.1 and works for me. There are known problems
with 1.4.11 through 1.4.15 so best avoid those too.
Cheers,
--
Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)