Bob Palowoda wrote:
> Remember I said "the gates of hell" and you brought up
> libtool.
libtool is it's own circle of hell, populated by demons whose
names all end in ".la".
> Is libtool used for the
> OpenSolaris build process and worth an entry in the
> Collaborative porting encyclopedia experiment? Or
> is libtool only important to the Companion CD and build
> tools not to Solaris developers in general, not worth
> mentioning until it becomes stable on the Solaris platform.
libtool is used in building all the X11R7.x libraries now,
so working around its various forms of brain damage is becoming
a central part of the X consolidation build processes.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
