On 3/22/06, Simon Geard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, they do cover different problems, although there is some > overlap. Libtool is fairly specialised towards the task of hiding the > differences in the build process that exist on different platforms, e.g > Windows vs Linux vs HP-UX vs OpenVMS. Developers don't want to worry > about every possible concept of how to link a library, so they use > libtool to deal with it for them. Ah, now that makes sense. :) Thank you, Simon, for this explanation. :)
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