[Gdal-dev] libtool...

[Frank Warmerdam]

Andrey,

It seems yesterdays update of configure/aclocal/etc to use more
recent libtool stuff hosed things badly.  In particular, it seems
to have been that the shared library extension stuff was hosed for
the rest of us.

I found I could fix it by hand altering m4/libtool.m4 and configure to
set shrext right after setting shrext_cmds.

I am guessing that at some point libtool and friends changed from using
shrext to shrext_cmds but it seems that gdal is somehow a mix of old and
new.  I am guessing the problem is that gdal/ltmain.sh is old, but it does
not even seem that ltmain.sh exists in libraries like libtiff.

I'd appreciate your looking at this again.  My "fix" will be lost next
time we update m4/libtool.m4 with a newer version so I think after the
release we need a better fix for all of this.

Ugg, does this libtool stuff ever drive me freaking crazy.

Best regards,
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