Dermot McCluskey wrote:
> Libtool is a utility that hides the complexity of using shared
> libraries when developing software and is very commonly used by
> developers of open-source software. It is often used in
> conjunction with other "auto tools" such as automake and autoconf
> to make it easier to build applications on different platforms.
Can we state that libtool is highly not recommended and usually builds worse
libraries than other systems? That .la files should be scorched from a
safe distance and never seen again? That other than being integrated into
automake, it makes it *harder* to build libraries?
Has this version of libtool at least fixed the "impossible to build a 64-bit
library correctly on Solaris" bugs? (Would have to dig into my old Xorg
builds to see if I could find all the ways I had to work around libtool's
damage, but as I recall it was forcing use of the -64 flag, assuming you
linked shared libaries with ld, not cc.)
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
