On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 15:24 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 12:07 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > 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. > > Sun cc is pretty similar, but solaris has gcc installed well over half > the time anyway. *BSD and OSX are all gcc, Though these beasts are GCC variants, they actually are quite different from Linux-vendor's GCCs or FSF GCC. > Windows is effectively gcc > for open source projects, and there are no other operating systems. > > 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. Ouch! Supporting different compilers is very small detail in libtool (and the autotools in general). They do a lot more. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
