On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 09:02:43PM +0100, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > I found a discussion about portable use of shared libraries on this > list: > > http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2002-05/msg00124.html Ick. > 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. A patch has already made it into libtool 1.5.x to fix the above problem. I think the libtool developers are working towards a 1.6 release in sync with automake 1.8 and possibly autoconf 2.59. The solution is libtool. I'm sure the libtool list would be interested in any problems you find. -- albert chin (china@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)