Re: Automake and the Hurd

[Jeff Bailey]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 09:41:15AM +0200, Niels Möller wrote:

> > o I bumped all of the shared library versions to 1:0:0, becuase I
> > didn't want to take the time yet to try and wrestle libtool into
> > honouring our "0.3" version.

> I think I would have introduced one tool at a time, automake first,
> libtool later. (And I'm generally not too fond of libtool, I'd much
> prefer something simpler and in the Hurd case there's not much point
> in trying to support non-elf non-gcc systems). That's my two units
> of some random currency.

I chose to use libtool for two specific reasons:

1) libtool is the generally recommended way of building non-static
libraries with automake.

2) Using libtool gives us interlibrary dependancies with the .la
files.

The fact that perhaps any posix might be supported and there's
slightly easier bootstrapping is just a nice add-on.

Tks,
Jeff Bailey

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