On 3/7/08, Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, March 8, 2008 01:23, NightStrike wrote: > > On 3/7/08, Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Sat, March 8, 2008 01:11, NightStrike wrote: > >> > Does automake support building shared libraries without using libtool? > >> > >> The question is: why? > > > > Hypothetical discussion on the tcl project. > > Tcl is supposed to be portable, no? Doing it portably pretty much > requires libtool.
Supposed to be and is are two different things :) Tcl doesn't use automake, and has completely different configure scripts for windows and unix. The configure system doesn't support any cross compiling, etc etc... So there's a lot of issues. I made the assertion that automake would make the job a lot easier, but there's a lot of bias, due mainly to deficiencies in libtool (or deficiencies in the USAGE of libtool by the users...) > >> There is no special support, but there is no special impediment, either. > > > > How would one go about doing it? in a nutshell.. > > Oh, I forgot, sorry: there is a special impediment, namely that I won't > help people to do it. No reason making myself more work needlessly. That's rather harsh... no need to be mean about it. I was asking at a very high level, not asking for step by step instructions.
