On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 12:28:44AM -0500, Peter Jones wrote: > Ulrich Drepper wrote: > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > >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? A Linux only replacement is of minimal interest to large majority of libs in Fedora which are portable across multiple OS. Very few libs are truely Linux only Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
