Re: Patch to allow make to load plugins that add new functions.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Paul Smith <address@hidden>
> CC: David Boyce <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 16:13:47 -0400
> 
> Maybe this is just irrational prejudice but I've never had a good
> experience using libtool and I'm SO uninterested in fighting with it in
> GNU make.
> 
> I will admit that my distaste is so extreme that I've not even gone near
> it for the last 5 years or more.  Maybe (hopefully) it's much improved.

libltdl has nothing to do with libtool.  It is just a library for
dynamically loading shared libraries, presenting the same API on all
supported platforms.  You can use that library but not libtool itself,
they have nothing in common except the team that is developing them.