On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 13:53 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > 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?
Hmm... define 'worse libraries'. > That .la files should be scorched from a > safe distance and never seen again? Agreed. That's a good advice. > That other than being integrated into > automake, it makes it *harder* to build libraries? Right. I would change the description to say that "it is usually (instead of often) used in conjunction with automake and autoconf". And add that "Using libtool outside the autotools framework is not recommended". > 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.) Do you have more details of this bug? Thanks, Laca
