On 3/20/06, Lennon Cook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Now that I'm beggining to understand how it works, > libtool (and, for that matter, pkg-config) strikes me as a horrid > kludge, but I don't think theres any real alternative. My symlinks are > also kludgy, but I believe them to be slightly less so, since they > have the added benifit of not needing packages to know about them to > be useful. Ok, in retrospect this was a rash thing to say. Storing useful information in text files can't be kludgy, and now that I actually sit down and think about this for a whlie, seems like a very good idea. It allows packages to be installed literally /anywhere/ and still work, which is, to my understanding, exactly what the autotools are meant to provide. What I should have said here was that I'm hoping to be able to go further than the problem that they solve - I'm looking for /relocatable/ packages. It strikes me that pkg-config does everything libtool does, just in more general ways, and so I don't see a need for any package to use *both*. But, in my goal of relocatable packages, I think pkg-config is still too specific - although (and this is the main reason I say that my quote above was rash) I can't see any way to solve this problem yet.
With apologies for the degraded SNR. -- Lennon Victor Cook "He who receives an idea from me receives without lessening, as he who lights his candle at mine receives light without darkening" - Thomas Jefferson -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
