I found a discussion about portable use of shared libraries on this
list:
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2002-05/msg00124.html
Despite the apparent consensus that AC_LIB_LINKFLAGS should be added,
I cannot find it in 2.57. Has the macro undergone significant
changes, or is it simply not in yet?
I'm interested because I'd like to use it in Wget, which currently
uses libtool for linking. While this solution works, it is quite
heavyweight, especially with libtool 1.5, which contains an incredible
number of unnecessary checks (e.g. for every FORTRAN compiler under
the sun). Also, libtool sometimes breaks on architectures it was not
well tested on, which in turn causes Wget to not build. Since Wget
doesn't even *use* the functionality of libtool, except for setting up
rpath, it would be nice to get rid of the dependency.
Please keep me in the Cc when sending replies -- thanks.
