Re: [RFC] Custom tag interface

[Peter O'Gorman]

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> > If the reason is that /prefix/bin/libtool should support all possibilities,
> > then I'd suggest that we stop installing /prefix/bin/libtool.
>
> Shame on you, Peter O'Gorman. Shame on you. :-)
>
> Libtool is a stand alone utility which can be used without any other
> Auto tool to do useful things.  It was intended to be formally
> installed from the beginning of libtool time, and we should not stop
> doing so.

What useful things does it do exactly? It is an extremely useful utility for 
developers who wish to package software and build shared code portably, I 
don't think that /usr/bin/libtool helps them to do that.

Since this is being discussed, why do we need to install libtool? Doing so 
does nothing for us that I can see. You have given no real reasons Bob, and 
I'm feeling argumentative :)

> As far as multi-compiler support for the same language goes, it may
> appear to be stretching things a bit, but if we can do it without too
> much pain or burden, why not do so

s/too much/any/
and I'd agree with you.

Peter
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