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From: | Roumen Petrov |
Subject: | Re: Multipurpose binaries with different names |
Date: | Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:29:53 +0300 |
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Eric Blake wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Jan Engelhardt on 7/24/2009 3:25 AM:Hi, when one has a program that does something like if(strcmp(argv[0], "gunzip") == 0) uncompress(); else compress();GNU Coding Standards frown on this practice: http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/standards.html#User-Interfaces
The "Multipurpose binaries" are born before "GNU Coding Standards". So I think that libtool has to support them for historical reasons.
Regards Roumen
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