Would it be possible to add support for libtool in a cmake module? I understand that this would be against cmake's policy of not depending on external apps, but it could be a transient solution until full fledged support for convenience libs is added into cmake.
Has anybody already made such a libtool module for cmake? Cheers, Ionutz On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Andreas Pakulat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 23.11.08 08:53:44, Ioan Calin Borcoman wrote: >> Isn't a static lib still better than nothing? I was thinking at the >> same thing this morning - why not use static libs and simply don't >> install them. >> >> I agree, this still has the problem of missing lib dependencies that >> you have to solve by hand (with convenience libs, if you have libB >> that depends on libA, you simply need to link with libB and the linker >> solves your dependencies automatically; with static libs I guess >> you'll need to link with -lB -lA), but I guess static libs could cover >> a vast number of cases where an autotools developer would use a >> convenience lib. >> >> Am I missing something? > > This is Ok for building an executable, but linking a static lib into a > shared lib is completely unportable and not supported on all operating > systems that cmake supports. Thats why its not done. > > Andreas > > -- > Your life would be very empty if you had nothing to regret. > _______________________________________________ > CMake mailing list > CMake@cmake.org > http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake > _______________________________________________ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake