[libvirt] [PATCH] autogen.sh: added glibtool and pkg-config checks

[Bruce Korb]

Please don't use my project name when talking
about bootstrap process.   "autogen.sh" has become
a popular misnomer, so at least keep the ".sh" suffix.  Thanks.

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com> wrote:
> [adding bug-gnulib]
>
> On 09/15/2010 06:36 AM, Justin Clift wrote:
>>
>> OSX MacPorts has libtool named as glibtool, with libtoolize
>> named as glibtoolize.  This patch adds support for this, and also
>> adds a check for pkg-config, to warn when it is missing.
>
> Hmm - would it be easier to make bootstrap.conf list pkg-config as a
> prerequisite, rather than having to hack up autogen.sh to do that?
>
> Also, if I'm reading the code right, changing bootstrap.conf to list
> 'libtoolize' instead of 'libtool' as the prerequisite will let you get by
> with overriding just $LIBTOOLIZE instead of both $LIBTOOL and $LIBTOOLIZE.
>
> Additionally it may be sufficient to just teach upstream
> gnulib/build-aux/bootstrap to use 'find_tool LIBTOOLIZE libtoolize
> glibtoolize', at which point re-syncing to upstream bootstrap will
> automatically pick up on the right libtool for MacOS without you having to
> hack libvirt's autogen.sh in the first place :)
>
> So, NACK to this version of the libvirt patch, and instead let me do some
> gnulib work...  Not to mention that Gary is working on some upstream patches
> to improve bootstrap modularity, and there is also a request to add
> 'bootstrap --skip-git' that I need to respond to...
>
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> Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
> Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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