On 20 Mar 2000, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Mar 20, 2000, Kevin Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > The current version of libtool's does not support linking to other
> > libtool's libraries. Does the current CVS version?
>
> Yep, sorry, forgot to mention that :-(
>
> > How stable is the CVS version?
>
> I've been using it for Kaffe, and others have been using it for other
> large projects. It appears to work reasonably well.
Ok thanks. I think I will try it out. Should I just grab the latest or
is there a particular branch/date you recommend I try.
>
> > How will this behave with static libraries?
>
> Whenever the second library is linked in, libtool will implicitly link
> in any other libraries it depends on. Of course, this assumes people
> will be using libtool for linking. If not, they'll have to link in
> both libraries explicitly.
It sounds like using something similar to the *-config (such as
found with gtk and gnome) scripts would be a good think to use so that the
end user doesn't have to worry about what to link it.
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Kevin Atkinson
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