On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 09:27:46AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >>>>> "Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Andre> On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 10:31:24PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes > Andre> wrote: > >> >>>>> "Andre" == Andre Poenitz > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > Andre> libtool is a waste of time in the year 2007. That's certainly > Andre> just my opinion, but anyway. I also believe the kind of > Andre> variations between different version of Unix leading to and > Andre> rectifying the existance of autotools are gone nowadays (with > Andre> Linux as the only surviving variety, the rest is dead even if > Andre> the coroner's still out in some cases). > >> I think the code we had in the pre-libtool era was perfectly > >> suitable. > > Andre> Suitable for what? > > Compiling LyX. > > Lars' big reason for using libtool, AFAIR, was that that would allow > us to build parts of LyX as shared libraries. In practice, we have > never done that.
So can't we just get rid of it _now_? I fail to see whyu everybody has to suffer just to get us one step closer to the ivory tower at the horizon unless there's actually a bigger leap already in the pipe. Andre'
