[pacman-dev] [PATCH 4/5] Patch ltmain on autoreconf

[Dan McGee]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> We used to carry a patched version of ltmain in our repos to fix libtools
> issues with -Wl,-as-needed. Now that ltmain is "generated" by autoreconf,
> we manually patch it afterwards.
>
> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>
> ---
>  autogen.sh                      |  3 ++-
>  build-aux/.gitignore            |  3 ++-
>  build-aux/ltmain-asneeded.patch | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 build-aux/ltmain-asneeded.patch

I'm not super familiar with this, so hopefully this isn't too dumb of
a question to ask. Even though this patch didn't go upstream, we know
for a fact we can't do this some other way that is supported natively
by the tools?

-Dan