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Re: 1.5 automatically generating C++, F77 tags


From: Bob Friesenhahn
Subject: Re: 1.5 automatically generating C++, F77 tags
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 10:58:14 -0500 (CDT)

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Albert Chin wrote:
> >
> > AC_LIBTOOL_TAGS([c c++])
> > AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
>
> This means we'd have to get rid of --with-tags. As it's not
> documented, I'm for this. If someone specifies AC_LIBTOOL_TAGS, and
> say C++ isn't specified, I don't want AC_PROG_CXX dragged in.

I am also in favor of either getting rid of --with-tags, or supporting
it via a configure.ac macro that the package author needs to add.
Currently libtool adds a --with-tags option to the configure script
for each package which uses it.  This is confusing to package users
since there is no context associated with the option:

  --with-tags[=TAGS]
                          include additional configurations [automatic]

An option like

  --with-libtool-languages[=languages]

would be clearer for an end user.  However, I would also contend that
end-users should have no need to be aware that a package uses libtool.

Bob
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