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

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2012, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> Libtool is just (a complicated) compiler wrapper, to make building and
> linking against libraries easy to specify... be that on the command
> line with a direct libtool invocation, or from Makefile.am
> specifications.  I'm considering splitting the current libtool project
> in two:
>
>  1. libltdl as a standalone runtime loader wrapper

If it helps any with decision making, on October 15th I unbundled 
libltdl from GraphicsMagick, twelve years after I originally bundled 
it into ImageMagick.  I decided to do this because I realized that the 
value added by the bundling did not exceed the potential harm caused 
by the bundling.  Project configure and build times improved by 
removing libltdl.

Creading a stand-alone libltdl package is a very good idea.

Bob
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