From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Sascha Wilde <wilde@sha-bang.de>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: EDE: make project shared objects
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:30:42 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y6msm8ot.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvaaz8af7u.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:53:46 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> It would be best to use libtool for linking programs, too -- at least
>> when they are linked against shared libraries which are part of the
>> project. But this also makes only sense with an install target.
>
> I do not have a strong opinion on this, but IIUC while autoconf seems to
> be usually appreciated, and mostly so as well for automake (tho to
> a lesser extent), libtool has many more detractors because it is a lot
> more invasive.
>
> So it might be good to support projects using libtool, but I think it
> is important not to impose it.
The last time I attempted to use libtool, it was a huge mess; it seemed
to be trying so hard to be portable that it ended up being barely
usable.
-Miles
--
80% of success is just showing up. --Woody Allen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-31 5:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-29 15:01 EDE: make project shared objects Sascha Wilde
2009-10-30 11:36 ` Lluis
2009-10-30 13:06 ` Sascha Wilde
2009-10-30 18:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-31 5:30 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2009-10-31 12:07 ` Sascha Wilde
2009-10-31 12:14 ` Eric M. Ludlam
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