Alan Coopersmith wrote: > 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?
So, you're not a fan, then? Are you, like Keith, saying Don't Integrate. Or do you see any value in integrating with some form of warning/disclaimer? > 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.) The NEWS file says: * Fixed command line settings for non-GCC compilers, Solaris/64bit. which seems to be your bug. - Dermot
