On 05/16/2011 12:25 PM, Alon Levy wrote:
> Note that this requires libtool at build time rather than only for
> maintainers. This is unlike all other software using it. However,
> I believe this is not too bad given that a special make invocation
> is required.
I was under the impression this was the way to use libtool (I've basically
followed the manual). Is there another way that is better?
Without using Autoconf, this is the way.
Usually programs that are fully autoconf-iscated will ship a subset of
libtool sources in the tarball, build a custom version at configure
time, and invoke it from the Makefile via ./libtool. This has the
advantage that only the maintainer needs to have libtool installed.
OTOH we do not use Autoconf and I think this contributes to 99% of the
bad name for Autoconf, so it's not something we want.
Paolo
