On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 11:31 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 19:36 +0200, Karsten Hopp wrote: > >> Getting libtool-2.2 into F-11 is my plan, but I most likely need to get that through > >> FESCo as it breaks up to 300 packages according to my mass rebuilds. I'm going to > >> prepare a Wiki page with details about that. > > > > Isn't the whole point of libtool that it should make things _easier_, > > not break huge swathes of packages whenever we change it? > > > > How about we fix those 300 packages by making them _not_ use libtool, > > rather than making them use the latest version? > > > Hand coding Makefiles to compile shared libraries on all platforms is . > Before libtools many upstreams simply wouldn't package shared libraries > because of all the problems with getting it right for SunOS, Solaris, > OpenBSD, NetBSD, i386BSD, FreeBSD, AIX, Linux-aout, Linux-elf, gcc, acc, > etc. If the state of the art has advanced and there's a tool that can > replace libtool so a developer can say "I want a shared library" and the > tool builds it on all platforms then we could look into getting > upstreams to switch but simply getting rid of libtool in favour of > handcoding Makefiles to build shared libraries is a step in the wrong > direction. The state of the art is "gcc -shared". - ajax
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