Re: [PATCH] New language support interface

[Scott James Remnant]

On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 03:51, Albert Chin wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 08:20:09PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > This removes the AC_LIBTOOL_TAGS macro in favour of a set of LT_INIT
> > options and a new LT_LANG macro to select language support.
> > 
> > The three LT_INIT options are:
> > 
> >     no-lang         No language support other than C.
> >     all-lang        All supported languages
> >     auto-lang       Automatically detect required support
> 
> Ick. What developer using libtool does _not_ know what languages they
> need. Is there every a case where "auto-lang" would not be used?  Why
> would a C-based project ever want a non-C-based tag?
> 
You're also assuming here that their entire build system will be managed
by the same configure.ac file; many projects have a lay out something
like:

        project-1.0/configure.ac
        project-1.0/ltmain.sh
        project-1.0/libtool
        project-1.0/bindings/cxx/configure.ac
        project-1.0/bindings/f77/configure.ac

The bindings/* directories might share the Libtool configured by the
main project itself, yet the main project doesn't have C++ or Fortran 77
support.

We therefore need to supply LT_LANG for these kinds of people.

Scott
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