Il 05/09/2013 23:45, Peter Maydell ha scritto: > On 5 September 2013 20:41, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: >> Libtool used to be really bad, but most performance problems have been >> solved. > > How about the "it silently creates things in dot-directories, > recompiles things at random times when it really shouldn't, > and is an enormous insane shell script" problems? The positives > would have to be really really strong before we let libtool > into the codebase...
How about "we'd break compilation on your favorite OS"? :) Darwin ld doesn't support --whole-archive, it needs a different incantation. Relatively recent Solaris now has it, but Apple still holds the bastions. Paolo
