On 22/06/07, Dermot.McCluskey at sun.com <Dermot.McCluskey at sun.com> wrote:
> 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?

Not to answer for anyone else, but...

libtool is a necessary evil due to its use by many open source projects.

It should be strongly discouraged from use for any new projects in
BIG, BOLD LETTERS. However, I think including it would go a long way
to easing some of the pains of compiling software written for "that
other OS"...

-- 
"Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright

Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/

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