On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 09:44:59PM -0500, Jim Jagielski wrote: > Brian Havard wrote: > > Yeah, that's more how I see it. It's only really intended for OS/2 & maybe > > a few other platforms that aren't supported by libtool. I wasn't trying to > > start a revolution.... > > I think it's significant that there are (so far) 2 work-arounds > in place for libtool,
2 out of how many successful ones? How many edge cases is libtool handling for us, which we would otherwise need to deal with ourselves? > and that libtool has somewhat consistantly > been the only real thorn in our build environment. :) Is was initially. Things seem pretty fine now. > I like how both basically are there to reduce libtool down to > the bare requirements we need it for: (1) determine how to > created loadable modules and (2) create archives. If we have a replacement tool that can do that across as many platforms as libtool, then it may have a shot at being used. But until then, it would be quite a regression in functionality to drop libtool. Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
