What are the caveats?

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Eric Merritt <[email protected]>wrote:

> I am playing with removing the deps directory, well at least
> libarchive. The problem I am running into is that libarchive uses
> libtool to make its libraries which is not compatible with the normal
> non-libtool crap and waf does not support libtool well at all.
>
> I am pretty sure removing libarchive from being included in the app
> (and libz which would be required as well) is a good thing. A very
> good thing. However, I dont think it can easily be done with waf. That
> means converting to something else. Probably autotools hate, hate,
> hate them though I do.
>
> The other option is to leave libarchive in the dependencies, add libz
> and continue on. The upside there is it already works though with a
> bunch of caveats.  I am a bit stuck as to the best way to go so I
> thought I would solicit opinions.
>
> Eric
>
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