On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 16:33 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > Hi, > Given this I'm not sure why nobody has ever replaced libtool while > keeping automake. For me it's probably 1) automake is written in perl > which I just don't speak and 2) suspicion that automake upstream > wouldn't take the patch. I am completely happy with automake > (especially when used nonrecursively). But libtool is too > anti-productivity to live. If automake could just build a frickin' > shared library instead of .la-hell, it would be a big upgrade. > > Or if someone could fix libtool so it isn't slow, and doesn't create > annoying .la files on platforms that don't require them, that would be > great too.
What about http://dolt.freedesktop.org/ ? The approach taken here sounds quite reasonable and has the potential to cut down compile time significantly while keeping the portability of libtool without having to reimplement it. Sven _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list