On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 15:56 -0400, Braden McDaniel wrote:
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.
Why the h8? He was speaking in the context of "the state of the art" and
in my oh-so-humble opinion CMake is it. The whole of the Autotools stack
is very much... not. Last I checked I was just some random guy on the
internet who has sadly not been granted the power to force anyone to do
anything.
This thread is getting less constructive by the posting. We still
don't know the nature of the failures.
There, does changing the subject make you happier?