Status of libtool 2.2.X?

[Braden McDaniel]

On Oct 10, 2008, at 3:38 PM, Callum Lerwick wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 11:31 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>> 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.
>
> CMake! Catch the wave!
>
> http://www.cmake.org/

Um, no. That's not what he asked for.

If you want upstream to stop using libtool altogether, find a suitable  
replacement and convince the Automake developers to use it instead.

This thread is getting less constructive by the posting.  We still  
don't know the nature of the failures.

Braden