c2k15: afresh1@ on libtool(1), encouragement, locales, and Hipster coffee

Our next c2k15 report comes from Andrew Fresh (afresh1@). Andrew writes,

I started off the hackathon without a specific project in mind hopingsomething interesting would come up. In the mean time I thought I wouldwork on running the GNU libtool tests with our libtool(1) in order tosee if there were things I could fix or improve. I did get it to run,but their autowhatever tools to get it to go confused me too much and Iended up running `make test` in the port and stealing the testinfrastructure from there. It turns out that was the wrong tack to findbroken things in libtool. All the complaints were because our errormessages don't look like their error messages or other similarly uselessproblems. If I end up back at this, I'll instead go find ports that usethe other libtool and see if I can figure out why they use it.

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