On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Charles Wilson wrote: > Since autoconf (>= 2.56) will only work on systems whose shells support > shell functions, and libtool requires autoconf, then libtool will only > work on those same systems. Which means shell functions are available > and we *can* use them. Whether we *should* use them or not is then a > technical decision, resting on the arguments you put forward above.
Shell functions could be used in the libtool-portion of the configure script, the generated libtool, or both. If they are only used in the configure script, then there is some hope that libtool could be cross-compiled from a more modern host like: ./configure --host=very-old-os and be copied to the target for execution. It could also be used as part of a larger package that supports being cross-compiled. Does libtool support being cross compiled? Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
