On Sat, May 24, 2008, Jeff Johnson wrote:

> I'm all in favor of using the latest & greatest for development.
>
> However, there are legacy needs building rpm from CVS.

Can you be more specific, Jeff? The only needs I can imagine is that an
RPM 5 _developer_ like you wants to build HEAD on an ancient system. If
this is the case, ok, we can add some workarounds for this. But regular
users in legacy situations should use the official RPM 5 tarballs and
for those one doesn't need a locally installed Libtool. Also keep in
mind that for just building RPM 5 on an ancient platform you could use
"devtool standalone" where the latest GNU libtool is available. So,
we are really talking about the situation that someone like you is 1.
building RPM from CVS, 2. on an older platform, 3. without "devtool
standalone", right? Puhhh... ok, I'll look how we can add some seamless
support for this situation into the autogen.sh scripts. What particular
version of ancient Libtool are you faced with? 1.5.x?

                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
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