autotools hurts my brain; it's a monster out of control
Peter Jones
pjones at redhat.com
Fri Dec 5 05:28:44 UTC 2008
Responding to the correct mailing list for this discussion. Cc:ing the other one.
Ulrich Drepper wrote:
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> John Dennis wrote:
>> I've had my fill of autotool problems (especially libtool)
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> Don't throw in libtool with the rest. libtool was available in the
> spirit of the auto tools only in its very first version (which of those
> reading this only Jim and Tom will know). Then came the windows and
> HP-SUX idiots and ruined it. I've for the longest time said libtool
> should not be used (and I don't do it in my code). In the worst case a
> simple Linux-only replacement for libtool should be used.
I agree that a Linux-only replacement for libtool should be used, if at all. So
why isn't there one available in Fedora that deps on "libtool" will pick by default?
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Peter
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