> > When you're going into the autotools hell. Also completely > obsoleted before it even came into existence. A set of well- > designed shell functions could do the job *much* better. >
While porting to cygwin I can be happy when they use it. For my first impression those libraries are more easy to port. They produce libraries with a *.dll.a suffix like the native libraries of Cygwin. The other example is libz. AFAIK it has a manually written configure script. It generates libz.so. bzip2 ends up in error messages until I build it statically. I still try to understand the relation of shared libraries and dynamic libraries. I read that dynamic libraries are linked at runtime. I also read, that you can dynamically link againgst a shared as well as against a normal library. But isn't a normal library also shared when multiple programs link it at runtime or does shared library mean it is shared in memory (PIC)? Al
