On 22/06/07, Keith M Wesolowski <keith.wesolowski at sun.com> wrote: > 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.
As you said, it depends on what you are doing. If for example, you are someone that contributes *as a developer* to an open source project that uses libtool, you need it :( That's the boat I find myself in all to often. -- "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/
