Keith M Wesolowski wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 04:06:22PM +0200, Roland Mainz wrote:
> > Well, I'm interested to find someone who can guide me through my first
> > putback to SFWNV and one of my two choices (the other one is
> > http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=868) is to improve
> > libtool performance (no ARC case required - I just want to switch from
> > /usr/bin/bash to /usr/bin/ksh93 and maybe use "shcomp" - that's more
> > than good enougth for the FOX bits) to help my own team a bit...
> 
> While it's obviously your choice to work on whatever you like, my
> advice would be not to spend time on libtool.

My current desire is to make life for the FOX users a bit less painfull
with a four-line patch (likely a bit larger when I add more builtins and
"shcomp" usage) - that's all.

> It is obsolete,
> deprecated, and included only for the benefit of people working on
> software that has unfortunately already incorporated it. No new
> software should use libtool,

Erm.. I don't want to add new software which uses libtool. 

> and the best thing one could do involving
> it is start removing it from our various other software.

Please go to xorg at lists.freedesktop.org and try to explain _that_ to
Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org>. And then better duck for cover...

Keith:
If you're able to convince Daniel&&X.org to stop using libtool or
libtool clones like "dolt" and get him to admit that libtool is horrible
then I'll make you one of my famous apple cakes, delivered _warm_ to
your MPK office (do the MPK buildings have a kitchen and an oven ?).
And I'm not joking...

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Bye,
Roland

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