Adam Jackson wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 11:31 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >> 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". > So gcc is the compiler everywhere these days? Note this is a genuine question -- I haven't used anything besides Linux in so long I don't know whether Sun or anyone else is shipping their own C compiler anymore. -Toshio
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