Thanks to the effort of Mauro Tortonesi and the prior work of Bruno
Haible, Wget has been modified to no longer use Libtool for linking in
external libraries. If you are interested in why that might be a
cause for celebration, read on.
A bit of history: Libtool was integrated in Wget by Dan Hark
Mark Post
-Original Message-
From: Hrvoje Niksic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 8:11 PM
To: wget@sunsite.dk
Subject: No more Libtool (long)
Thanks to the effort of Mauro Tortonesi and the prior work of Bruno
Haible, Wget has been modified to no longer use Libtool for
"Post, Mark K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I read the entire message, but I probably didn't have to. My
> experience with libtool in packages that really are building
> libraries has been pretty painful. Since wget doesn't build any,
> getting rid of it is one less thing to kill my builds in t
Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> Google doesn't show even nearly enough hits when you search for "libtool
> sucks".
Because it's an understatement. :-)
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On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> Despite the apparent consensus that it should be integrated in
> Autoconf, the integration never materialized. When I queried about
> this in 2003 (http://tinyurl.com/a63lc), the single response
> charmingly told me that "the solution is libtool." I no
"Maciej W. Rozycki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Bugs are of course inevitable and you shouldn't be surprised seeing
> them especially as on exotic platforms (you even admit you've never
> been able to reproduce some of the other's problems on your
> systems).
Please note that a platform doesn't
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> > Bugs are of course inevitable and you shouldn't be surprised seeing
> > them especially as on exotic platforms (you even admit you've never
> > been able to reproduce some of the other's problems on your
> > systems).
>
> Please note that a platform d
, June 27, 2005 8:01 AM
To: Hrvoje Niksic
Cc: wget@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: No more Libtool (long)
-snip-
Everyone else please either file bug reports (or better yet fix bugs you
trip over) or keep silent.
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Post, Mark K wrote:
> This is the kind of obnoxious commentary I've learned to expect from
> glibc's maintainers. It's no more becoming from you (or anyone else).
Well, but unlike with glibc, maintainers of libtool do actually handle
problems reported by users. But they h
You already blew that opportunity when you told us to shut up. Blame
yourself.
Mark Post
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Maciej W. Rozycki
Sent: Monday, June 27, 2005 11:15 AM
To: Post, Mark K
Cc: wget@sunsite.dk
Subject: RE: No more
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