libtoolize in .bootstrap

Marc Glisse marc.glisse at inria.fr
Sat Apr 30 13:25:41 CEST 2011


On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Niels Möller wrote:

> Marc Glisse <marc.glisse at inria.fr> writes:
>
>> I used -c (copy ltmain.sh, not symlink it) because I assume .bootstrap
>> is also used before making a release.
>
> I think automake's dist target follows symlinks when making the release
> package. At least I used automake -a in a project some years ago, and as
> far as I remember, it linked in various files from /usr/share into the
> working tree, and put full copies (rather than links) in the tar.gz
> created by make dist.

Makes sense, I'll remove the useless -c then, thanks.

-- 
Marc Glisse


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