[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Incorporating the gnulib2 Branch
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:02:14 -0500
Christian,
Thanks for the links and the explanation of the gnulib problem. I hope
the solution is fairly simple when you have time to look for it.
John
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 04:06:17PM +0100, Christian Egli wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 07:56 -0500, John J. Boyer wrote:
> > I see that you have merged the automated table testing into the liblouis
> > trunk.
>
> Yes, I thought I'd merge it back before I forget. It might be useful for
> someone down the road to test their table. It has some problems as it
> doesn't handle UTF-8 currently (a limitation of lou_translate) but I
> don't have time to fix that now. So despite its limited functionality
> somebody might find it useful and for everybody else it should not cause
> any harm.
>
> > Now I want to verify that developers who install the latest
> > versions of the gnu autotools can make releases of the gnulib2 branch
> > teat can be compiled by anyone. Could you give the versions you are
> > using again?
>
> I develop on Ubuntu 9.4 currently (automake 1.10.2, libtool 2.2.6 and
> autoconf 2.63). The latest libtool is 2.2.6a and can be found on
> http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.2.6a.tar.gz. However I don't
> know if you can just upgrade libtool without upgrading the other tools.
>
> Also the problem isn't just for developers: Lars had a problem when
> doing the make (after the ./configure). This would mean that every user
> that is trying to build liblouis with an older libtool will have
> problems.
>
> I think I need to try to find out what the problem is and if there is
> something that we can do in the source (e.g. configure.ac) to solve
> this. I just haven't had time to follow up on this. The problem is
> described in
> //www.freelists.org/post/liblouis-liblouisxml/gnulibification-of-Liblouis,2
>
> Thanks
> Christian
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