On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 05:49 +0000, John Gay wrote: > > On 3/22/06, Simon Geard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Actually, they do cover different problems, although there is some > > > overlap. Libtool is fairly specialised towards the task of hiding the > > > differences in the build process that exist on different platforms, e.g > > > Windows vs Linux vs HP-UX vs OpenVMS. Developers don't want to worry > > > about every possible concept of how to link a library, so they use > > > libtool to deal with it for them. > > Shame the developers of those tools couldn't explain it so well.
Actually, the developers of those tools explain it much, much better. If one was actually to stop and read the documentation, and not have someone summarize it for them, then they too would realize it. :-) You can't expect the developers to compare their software against what other software does. We can only expect that the developers adequately document what their software does, and how to use it. And in this case, I believe they do. man pkg-config info libtool -- Randy rmlinux: [bogomips 3993.32] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.2] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 06:19:30 up 1 day, 13:54, 8 users, load average: 0.20, 0.17, 0.10 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
