<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=40177 >
On 01/04/2008, Per I. Mathisen wrote: > > Why, though? Are you really sure you want to risk your sanity by using > libtool? This was originally part of #40144, where I first almost lost my sanity because of not using libtool. Libtool convenience libraries make it easier to handle all these interdependencies between our libraries. > There will be additional problems from people who cannot find > the shared library after running 'make install' (because they don't > have /usr/local/lib in /etc/ld.conf, or whatever). Good point. I'll see if something can be done to avoid that. Of course, we could use libtool only to build convenience libraries, and not shared libraries at all... I assume that some users (with embedded platforms) would like the memory saving of server and client using same shared libfreeciv. stripped libfreeciv.so: 760k. stripped civserver with static linking: 1530k stripped civserver with dynamic linking: 252k stripped civclient with static linking: 1292k stripped civclient with dynamic linking: 813k Static total: 1530k+1292k = 2822k Dynamic total: 252k + 813k + 760k = 1825k One possible, if unlikely, development with libtool would be plugin-interface for AI. - ML _______________________________________________ Freeciv-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/freeciv-dev
