Re: is libtool a standalone tool these days?

[Gary V. Vaughan]

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Marty Leisner wrote:
| I'm reading the autobook -- it discusses lines like:
| address@hidden 10:22:47; libtool gcc -c hello.c
| mkdir .libs
| gcc -c hello.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/hello.lo
| gcc -c hello.c -o hello.o >/dev/null 2>&1
| mv -f .libs/hello.lo hello.lo
| (this is from libtool 1.4 on redhat 7.2)

Yes, the goat book was written about libtool 1.4 era.

| But libtool 1.5 wants a --tag option (which isn't defined in the
| documentation).
| It seems to work if I specify --tag=foo

It shouldn't need a --tag option (it just defaults to C if none is given),
though you ought to provide a --mode={compile,link,blah} argument since mode
inference will not be present in 1.6.

| All the documentation seems to point that libtool can run standalone.
| Is this correct?

Yes.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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