Re: Using libtool 2.0 in autoconf tests

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Sander Niemeijer wrote on Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 01:54:12PM CET:
> 
> I have send this question to the list about a month ago, but 
> unfortunately, there hasn't been an answer yet, and the release of 
> libtool 2.0 is not that far away (right?).

Hmm.  We need to at least wait for the copyright issue to settle, I
guess.  Other than that, a cursory search of my mail archives of the
libtool lists show up on the order of 10-20 unresolved problems, yours
being one of them (might as well post a TODO list for 2.0).

It's good you bring it up again, it's an important problem from a user's
point of view.

> I have some self written autoconf tests that check for linking shared 
> libraries against some specific other libraries (these other libraries 
> should be available as shared libraries or we might have a PIC problem. 
> That is what my tests checks for). For this I had to create a variant 
*snip*

I agree with your view of things.  I think we should allow this to be
done.

Gary, you did the whole bootstrap reorganization.  Is anything close to
this possible?

Regards,
Ralf