On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: > As I recall, the problem is that we have to continually tweak things. > Over and over and over. Edge cases never stop with libtool. It creates > a continual maintenance nightmare.
Right. libtool constantly requires lots of handholding to get it 'right' - I got tired of adding every edge case in our autoconf/build system because upstream packagers broke their libtool in odd and uneven ways. The straw broke for me when libtool was crashing my X server... I don't expect that the situation has improved since I tossed it...but, if others want to maintain it, go for it. But, expect that you're going to be spending lots of time (as I did) trying to get every edge case of a platform to work. IMO, the right thing is to force upstream packagers to get it right and not waste our time in this sinkhole. -- justin
