[Glibc-bsd-devel] Re: [PATCH] GNU/KNetBSD support

Gary V. Vaughan gary@gnu.org
Mon, 22 Sep 2003 13:22:42 +0100


Robert Millan wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 10:37:52AM -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> 
>>Regardless of the number applied to the release, there will be a
>>release.  Gary has expressed an interest in producing a release from
>>the main branch rather than the branch-1-5 branch.  The main branch
>>has everything in "branch-1-5" plus a few new features.
> 
> 
> That's nice.. what is the ETA?

Gotta reinstate my shell account at the FSF, synchronize libltdl changes I've 
made for m4, add a feature to diagnose version mismatch between libtool.m4 and 
ltmain.sh, take advantage of aclocal-1.8's m4_include feature -- this will
reduce the distribution tarball size by 20-40% by my estimation.

Unless the Automake team release 1.8 very soon, I'd hope to have it done well 
inside a month behind the Automake release, with a beta a week or two before that.

I also think I know how to remove the double configure requirement in the 
libtool bootstrap, but that is a bonus feature that relies on some of the work 
above being done by someone other than me, and isn'ta requirement for a 1.6 
release.

Cheers,
	Gary.
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