Hi Marius, I think this is more a question for libtool folks. My opinion: the more impediments to installation that there are results in more folks deciding that it isn't worth the bother. I really hate downloading a package only to find that there's a bunch of other stuff to find, download and install first.
Regards, Bruce On Monday 07 March 2005 05:09 pm, Marius Vollmer wrote: > Hi, > > we currently distribute a copy of libltdl as part of guile-core and > install it when libltdl is not already found in the system. > > I think this is wrong since libltdl belongs to libtool and should be > installed by libtool and not by any number of programs that use it. > > We do not distribute libgmp although we rely on it and we shouldn't > distribute libltdl although we rely on it. > > I had the concrete problem that I couldn't do a "make distcheck" > without prior "make install" on a system where in fact libltdl was not > available. But even if this is due to some bugs in the way that we > use libltdl, I think we should just treat libltdl as any other > external library. > > It makes installing Guile slightly harder, but the behavior of Guile > is in fact simpler. > > Opinions? > > (I have committed the removal of libltdl already.) > _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel
