On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 00:28 -0500, Peter Jones wrote:
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)
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).
Right, ... and libtool-2 is a completely different beast once again.
Future will tell if it improves or worsens the situation. It definitely cleans up part of the mess older libtools suffered from.
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?
Such a tool would widely contradict libtools purposes (portability).
I.e. such a tool will only help "linux-only packages" and package for which portability to other OS is of minor interest (such as glibc).
Ralf