On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 00:41 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > Peter Jones wrote: > > Responding to the correct mailing list for this discussion. Cc:ing the > > other one. > > > > Ulrich Drepper wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> John Dennis wrote: > >>> I've had my fill of autotool problems (especially libtool) > >> > >> Don't throw in libtool with the rest. libtool was available in the > >> spirit of the auto tools only in its very first version (which of those > >> reading this only Jim and Tom will know). Then came the windows and > >> HP-SUX idiots and ruined it. I've for the longest time said libtool > >> should not be used (and I don't do it in my code). In the worst case a > >> simple Linux-only replacement for libtool should be used. > > > > I agree that a Linux-only replacement for libtool should be used, if at > > all. So why isn't there one available in Fedora that deps on "libtool" > > will pick by default? > > There's one, called dolt. Problem is, packages ship with generated files so > they won't pick it up unless you want to do the 'autoconf; libtoolize; > automake; ...' => It's an alternative to developers, not an alternative "at build-time". > at build time, which breaks more stuff than it fixes. dolt is > not fully transparent. One needs to add one line to configure.ac, but that > can be worked around if we wanted to. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
