On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 16:41 +0700, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > Another consideration is that rolling Libtool into Automake would make > using Libtool as a standalone script rather more difficult. Having > said that, my impression is that Libtool is rarely used that way in > any case, and further simplification may be possible by deliberately > dropping explicit support for that use case. >
I use standalone libtool to build packages which have either no or rather primitive facilities for multi-platform generation of dynamic libraries. As far as I know there are no comparable alternatives. There's a lot of valuable code out there, legacy or not, whose build systems are not capable of handling library generation on multiple platforms. Libtool fills a very important niche by making it possible to make that code painlessly useable on multiple platforms. I strongly recommend retaining a standalone libtool. Diab _______________________________________________ https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
