Re: GNU Libtool 1.5.8 released.

[Tim Mooney]

In regard to: Re: GNU Libtool 1.5.8 released., Bob Friesenhahn said (at...:

> When building a multilibed library, a variant of the library could be
> built for every possible architectural option, or a subset of the
> libraries could be built.  It seems to me that being able to choose
> from a subset of possible library build options is valuable since
> many build options may offer no value to the user.  I am not sure
> how options would be presented to the installer of 
> the package, but it should be as easy as possible to select which
> variants are build, and it should even be possible for the person
> who installs the library to define custom multilib variants to
> satisfy local requirements.

I've always envisioned that it would work very similarly to
--{enable,disable}-{shared,static} -- a package that uses libtool
gets a bunch of new configure options "for free".  What those
options should be is less clear, especially since there will be
differences in what's available for different platforms and OSes.

Tim
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