[vlc-devel] [vlc-commits] extras: libtool depends on automake, which in turn depends on autoconf

[Rafaël Carré]

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 06:56:21PM +0200, Felix Paul Kühne wrote:
> vlc | branch: master | Felix Paul Kühne <fkuehne at videolan.org> | Wed Oct 22 18:48:50 2014 +0200| [79df8a65f1a4a2a3444cdeecc3055681e6dd5a46] | committer: Felix Paul Kühne
> 
> extras: libtool depends on automake, which in turn depends on autoconf
> 
> This solves long-standing conflicts with homebrew as well as the latest Xcode releases. Additionally, in most cases, all 3 items were built anyway.

Please explain the dependency and the original problem/conflict.

I can't see libtool depend on automake, https://packages.debian.org/sid/libtool
suggests as well that this isn't the case.