rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Rex Dieter) writes: > Had some spare cycles today, so thought I'd share my highly editorial take > on libtool .la file with the world. Enjoy. > > http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter1/libtool-archives-suck.html It is not (only) *.la which sucks but the whole 'libtool' suite: * when having a package which provides multiple libraries which are linked together, you could create an efficient libfoo0 -> libfoo1 -> libfoo2 -> APP dependency chain. With libtool you will always end with libfoo0 --, libfoo0 ---> libfoo1 ---> APP libfoo0 ---> libfoo2 --' libfoo0 --> libfoo1 --' * libtool reorders linker options, so that | -Wl,--as-needed -lz -lfoo -lbar becomes | -lz -lfoo -lbar -Wl,--as-needed rendering the '-Wl,--as-needed' effectless * libtool is a bloaty shell script slowing down the build process significantly * integration into automake makes 'make -s' useless * it creates alwyas RPATHs in multilib environments (except you apply unofficial patches) Enrico
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