On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 12:19:06PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > 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"...
That's not actually true. libtool's presence on the system is only necessary for developers; once a software distribution is libtoolized, it includes all the necessary libtool goo to build the thing, regardless of whether it's present on the build system. Same as for autoconf and automake. Whether you still believe it's necessary is another matter. -- Keith M Wesolowski "Sir, we're surrounded!" FishWorks "Excellent; we can attack in any direction!"
