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Re: configuring libltdl


From: Gary V. Vaughan
Subject: Re: configuring libltdl
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 12:08:42 +0000
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Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
| It seems to me that for packages which embed libtool and use libltdl,
| it is very trivial for the package's configure script to also
| configure libltdl.  This is *much* more efficient time-wise and
| space-wise than a recursive configure.  The fact that the libtool
| package uses a recursive configure sets a bad example that causes
| libltdl to seem like a lot more overhead than it really needs to be.
|
| Should we convert the libltdl configuration to be part of libtool's
| main configure script?

Sure.  The libtoolize --ltdl and --ltdl-tar options will need to be reworked
(what exactly is the point of ltdl-tar? Does anybody use it? And if so, why?).

Cheers,
        Gary.
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