[asterisk-dev] <huge>aclocal.m4</huge> ???

[Luigi Rizzo]

On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 03:16:45PM -0600, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > after this commit acloca.m4e went up from one line to over 6200:
> > 
> > http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/trunk/aclocal.m4?rev=46846&view=log
> > 
> > surely there must be a more compact way to figure out whether we
> > are using gnu-ld or something else ?
> 
> This macro is what GNU libtool uses; we don't have any reason to suspect
> that they don't know what they are doing.

on the other hand, if it comes from libtool, wouldn't it be better
to put the appropriate code in bootstrap.sh to bring whatever is needed
from the libtool configuration into the (generated) configure script ?

i am asking the experts here, because i definitely don't have an idea
on how to do it... perhaps calling AC_PROG_LIBTOOL  ?

> However, it appears that using macro brought in _all_ of the
> libtool-related macros. Probably we can just copy AC_PROG_LD_GNU and its
> sub-macros directly into acinclude.m4 instead, and not bring in all the
> other libtool stuff.

and that was exactly my point, if we need to copy stuff at all.

cheers
luigi