Outdated libtool creates trouble on macOS

[Marc Glisse]

On Sun, 30 Jul 2023, FX Coudert wrote:

>> Sorry about that. I knew there were problems with old autotools and quickly tried updating them before the release, but that caused too many problems.
>
> What are the problems? Our workaround is to rerun the latest autoreconf, and it emits a lot of warnings, but it does not create trouble. What are the symptoms you are seeing?

First, a large number of warnings can be a bit scary. Then, when I run 
configure, I get errors like

configure: line 12166: 1q: command not found

because configure put some uses of $SED before the code that sets the 
variable SED.

I tried autoupdate, as suggested by the warnings, but it replaced 
AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL with something non-functional IIRC.

It is likely that these issues and others are not too hard to deal with, 
but I don't have time for that now, and it is easy not to notice some 
issues that only affect other platforms so it didn't feel safe at the last 
minute.

> One other question: our Linux builder, which is running from Github Actions, fails to download from gmplib.org
> I thought only the mercurial repo was firewalled, is that not the case?

I don't know, but you can also download from the FSF servers.

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Marc Glisse