2008/10/10 Adam Jackson <ajax@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > Most of the complexity in libtool (and autotools in general) is to > support systems that simply are not worth supporting and that > practically speaking don't exist anymore. I'm being slightly flip in > saying 'gcc -shared' but really not by much. Honestly for any fringe > platform the correct thing to do is port gcc/binutils/gmake first. That's noble and all, but in the meantime I tend to like relying on the years of experiences built into libtool. Taken a look at mesa's bin/mklib lately? Tell me if you ever want to work on something like that. You may have noticed how dolt doesn't touch the linking part of libtool at all. Something that people seem to forget about when bashing libtool is all the flexibility it offers. Like convenience libraries? Like easily deciding if you want static or shared libraries? Like having your programs work while their in the source tree? Like having your so version and symlinks handled automatically? -- Dan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
