On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 10:52 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > This sounds like you're using it wrongly. Linking against an > uninstalled copy of a library is one of libtool's strengths, > and I know very few open bugs about it, so if you know a use > case that doesn't work, I ask you to please report it to the > bug-libtool list.
Don't get me wrong, using libtool to link against an uninstalled copy of a libtool library is fine. The problem is when libfoo uses libtool, and then I want to modify my autoconf-only package (which I can't convert to automake/libtool because it is a collaborative project, and Makefile.in is distinctly custom) to link against the uninstalled copy of libfoo. Because I'm not using libtool .la files are more or less unusable, so I have to go poking around to see where .a files might have been put, and code those paths in to my configure script. When libfoo upgrades, I have a strong chance of breakage. As one document put it, if you are trying to link against the output of libool without using libtool, you are rather on your own. Richard _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
