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