> Really it makes me wonder if this multiplaform building isn't just a cliche,
> and it's worse than just making programmers provide a separate package for
> each platform.
I totally understand your opinion and I must admit I am in the camp of
these to say that I find... that libtool seems to ..
I am experimenting a lot on my system.
For example i compile pango into /usr prefix.
Then i delete it, and compile pango anew into another prefix.
The problem is, if i then i.e. compile gimp, gimp "thinks" that
pango is still at that old place, even though it is at some other
place now does
