Status of libtool 2.2.X?
Sam Varshavchik
mrsam at courier-mta.com
Fri Oct 10 22:10:49 UTC 2008
Adam Jackson writes:
> 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.
There's much more to libtool then just building shared libraries. If you
remove everything from libtool that supports ancient platforms, you'll still
have quite a bit left.
For example, libtool builds both shared and static libraries in parallel.
That, alone, saves you from dealing with a massive hairball in your
makefiles. Ask anyone who works on a large, complicated app, that links with
its own shared libraries. The option to easily build a statically-linked
version is quite invaluable, for debugging purposes.
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