On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 02:23:31PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > AFAIK, the main capabilities that libtool provide is the ability to > cross build from one architecture to another. > I think its main purpose is to provide usable libraries whatever the *platform* (related to all those tests in configure, for old OS's we've otherwise forgotten about, and for the still-current non-linux OS's such as the BSDs. ISTR that the *how* of linking varies greatly, but that libtool should just be able to do it.
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