[squid-dev] libltdl in squid

[Eray Aslan]

Is there any particular reason we are shipping and building libltdl in
squid tarballs?  Problem I am facing is when I run autoreconf,
libtoolize blindly copies over am__api_version -which has the automake
version libtool was compiled with and not the version currently running
on the system- to aclocal.m4 which later errors out.

While libtoolize behaviour is certainly not ideal, why is squid not
using the system libltdl?  That seems to be the correct course of
action.  Is there a downside to getting rid of libltdl that I am
missing?

Gory details at:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536420

Thank you.
-- 
Eray