On Sun, Oct 24, 2021, at 4:33 PM, Alex Ameen wrote: > Howdy, > > I just wanted to reach out and connect with y'all to introduce myself > and hopefully map out patches to `libtool' to improve integration with > `autoconf'. Welcome aboard! I am delighted to hear that libtool is being maintained again. ... > Please feel free to reach out if you are aware of any headaches > `libtool' integration causes with `autoconf' development and I will be > more than happy to help - inline comments throughout `autoconf' refer to > a handful, but I imagine there are several others that are not > explicitly mentioned. Off the top of my head: It would be nice if libtoolize didn't have overlapping functionality with aclocal. More specifically, the work currently done by libtoolize's func_install_pkgmacro_files should instead be done by aclocal (there may be other places that need changing as well, I only skimmed libtoolize.in just now). If you can figure out a way to generate the 'libtool' script using only AC_SUBST operations, instead of relying on AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS, that will be substantially less fragile. While this is not a problem _for autoconf_, it is my impression that the 'libtool' script repeats a bunch of system-probing work, on each invocation, that could be moved to LT_INIT. I would encourage you to pursue this change, both for performance and because it would make everything libtool knows about the build and host environment accessible to configure.ac code. zw
