Re: GNU Libtool 1.5.8 released.

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> Well, the difference, in my little mind at least, is that the commercial 
> unixes can all be identified in libtool using $host, but linux will have the 
> same $host regardless of being debian, redhat, suse, etc... So the need here, 
> specifically is to identify the directories used by various linux 
> distributions, so that adding something which satisfies RedHat (in this 
> case), does not break debian.

In other words, the Linux folks should put their heads together and 
agree on a standard way of doing things, right? :-)

I agree that the proprietary Unix vendors are much easier to deal with 
and that OS identification/version tests should be sufficient in many 
cases.

Bob
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