Re: [Plplot-devel] AC 2.58 + AM 1.7.9

[Alan W. I. <ai...@us...>]

On 2003-11-24 15:41+0100 Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

> [...]Alan was mentioning libtool-1.5, which he says is not
> available to everyone.  However, my planned changes are not related to
> Libtool, and should work with previous versions of this tool.

The libtool situation is actually worse than I stated but still okay for our
needs.  Here is what I found today.  libtool-1.5 is only available to Debian
users and libtool developers. The latest full version of libtool that is
publically available is 1.4.2 (see
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-1.4.2.tar.gz). There is also a patch
file there called libtool-1.4.2-1.4.3.diff in that directory. I previously
assumed you could create libtool-1.4.3 from that, but I was wondering why
the FSF didn't do that themselves. I just tried that, and it turns out that
patch was done in a sloppy and inconsistent manner.  (I happen to have
libtool-1.4.3 downloaded from that site before their crack so I can compare,
and there is missing documentation changes, and more importantly many
programming inconsistencies [presumably from inconsistent bootstrapping, but
you never know].) So my judgement is libtool-1.4.2 (a 26-month old version)
is currently the best libtool version that is publically available to
non-Debian users.

Therefore, I decided to give the combination of autoconf-2.58,
automake-1.7.9, and libtool-1.4.2 a try for PLplot to confirm they would
satisfy our needs.

I downloaded (straight from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/*), unpacked,
configured, built, and installed all of them.

Then for _fresh_ checkout from PLplot cvs I did the following.

./bootstrap.sh
Using aclocal options: -I
/home/software/autotools/install/share/libtool/libltdl
Running aclocal (GNU automake) 1.7.9... done
Running autoheader (GNU Autoconf) 2.58... done
Running libtoolize (GNU libtool) 1.4.2... done
Running automake (GNU automake) 1.7.9...configure.ac: installing ./install-sh'
configure.ac: installing ./mkinstalldirs'
configure.ac: installing ./missing'
bindings/c++/Makefile.am: installing ./depcomp'
drivers/Makefile.am: installing ./compile'
 done
Running autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.58... done
Regenerating libltdl/aclocal+configure... done

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/plplot_at --disable-static > & configure.out
make >& make.out
rm -rf /usr/local/plplot_at/*
time make install >& make_install.out
23.480u 11.270s 0:41.95 82.8%   0+0k 0+0io 391175pf+0w

cd /tmp
cp -a /usr/local/plplot_at/lib/plplot5.2.1/examples/ .
cd c ; make ; cd c++ ; make ; cd f77 ; make ; cd tk ; make ; cd ..
./plplot-test.sh

There were no obvious problems in any of these above steps so this provides
a good benchmark for comparison with Rafael's planned autoconf- and
automake-related changes.

Joao, will you also try all the above steps, please?

If you confirm that the combination of autoconf-2.58, automake-1.7.9, and
libtool-1.4.2 work for you, I suggest we adopt those as our official autotools
versions until a more modern libtool is released.

Also, from what Rafael said, I don't anticipate any libtool-1.4.2 trouble
with his autoconf and automake modernization efforts, but I will be happy to
test his changes on the above combination of autotools just to be sure.

Alan
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