Re: libXaw8 replacement

[Thomas Dickey <dickey at his dot com>]

On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Ken Brown wrote:

> On 11/14/2008 1:20 PM, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
>
> > BTW, this looks like the package is using a VERY old version of libtool.
> >  I strongly recommend using the current version, which generally can be
> > pulled in with autoreconf.
>
> I tried autoreconf --force in the top-level source directory of texlive and 
> got several warnings and one error:
>
> configure:5043: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DIVERT_HELP
>      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
>
> I assume I have to say 'm4_pattern_allow AC_DIVERT_HELP' somewhere, but 
> where?
>
> How important is it to run autoreconf?  Could the fact that the package uses 
> an old version of libtool explain the segfault that I reported in 
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2008-11/msg00214.html ?

no - it's one of the changes made to autoconf, rather than libtool

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