Re: [HACKERS] Libtool?

2005-01-08 Thread lsunley
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 01/07/05 at 10:00 PM, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Various recent and not so recent problem reports got me thinking again that it might be worth switching our shared library build system to libtool. Among

Re: [HACKERS] Libtool?

2005-01-08 Thread Andrew Dunstan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Considering that pretty much everyone uses libtool these days, I'm not too worried about portability. (And before anyone asks: No, libtool does not require automake.) I think it may be worth trying out. Comments? Does it work with Windows, or with that be a

[HACKERS] Libtool?

2005-01-07 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Various recent and not so recent problem reports got me thinking again that it might be worth switching our shared library build system to libtool. Among those are: - Guesswork about which spellings of -rpath, -export-dynamic, -fpic etc. work on a particular platform or compiler. - Lack of

Re: [HACKERS] Libtool?

2005-01-07 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Various recent and not so recent problem reports got me thinking again that it might be worth switching our shared library build system to libtool. Among those are: - Guesswork about which spellings of -rpath, -export-dynamic, -fpic etc. work on a