Re: [RFC] Moving ltmain.sh and libtool.m4 into Automake

[John Bytheway]

On 17/10/12 05:41, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> Another consideration is that rolling Libtool into Automake would make
> using Libtool as a standalone script rather more difficult.  Having
> said that, my impression is that Libtool is rarely used that way in
> any case, and further simplification may be possible by deliberately
> dropping explicit support for that use case.

I use libtool regularly, but never automake.  I suspect this use case is
more common than is evident, because (as mentioned in another reply) it
is typically in non-public build tools.  But I have no proof of that.

So, at least on a personal level, I am strongly opposed to rolling
libtool into automake.

John Bytheway