On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 10:29 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 12:28:44AM -0500, 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? > > No one has explained yet how these packages that don't use libtool > will work when cross-compiling to Windows (or on HP-SUX / all the > other platforms that have different ways to make shared libraries). > > Really: use libtool, it helps. gcc -shared works on windows now, you know. If the assertion is that we still need to care about non-gnu toolchains, then that's one thing, but if all libtool is doing is wrapping gcc, then it's worse than useless. - ajax
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