Merge branch 'boehm-demers-weiser-gc' into bdw-gc-static-alloc

[bpt/guile.git] / HACKING

diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index f6d5185..ffe04a8 100644 (file)
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -59,8 +59,9 @@ Automake --- a system for automatically generating Makefiles that
 
 libtool --- a system for managing the zillion hairy options needed
        on various systems to produce shared libraries.  Available in
-       "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libtool".  Version 1.5.26 (or
-       later) is needed for correct AIX support.
+       "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libtool".  Version 2.2 (or
+       later) is recommended (for correct AIX support, and correct
+       interaction with the Gnulib module for using libunistring).
 
 gettext --- a system for rigging a program so that it can output its
         messages in the local tongue.  Guile presently only exports
@@ -88,6 +89,10 @@ have been known to cause problems, and a short description of the problem.
 - autoreconf from autoconf prior to 2.59 will run gettextize, which
   will mess up the Guile tree.
 
+- libtool 1.5.26 does not know that it should remove the -R options
+  that the Gnulib libunistring and havelib modules generate (because
+  gcc doesn't actually support -R).
+
 - (add here.)