-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > On 13/11/2007, H.Merijn Brand <h.m.br...@xs4all.nl> wrote: >> The header says it all > > Indeed. While we're at it, here's what my rss reader fed me this morning: > http://udrepper.livejournal.com/19395.html > Some good libtool hate by the glibc maintainer.
"Just avoid libtool and pkgconfig." Spoken like a true developer with a Linux-centric worldview. Try porting your non-libtool-using, non-pkgconfig-using programs to AIX, Mac OS X, VMS, etc. :P When used correctly, libtool is better than the alternatives, and it's still possible to use platform-specific enhancements on top of libtool... But oh man, I can tell you, when packaging stuff for Fink, anything that *doesn't* use libtool tends to go to the bottom of the list, 'cause I guarantee it's a bitch and a half to get it to link right. Libtool has been pretty responsive to bugs, and in general, getting broken stuff using libtool working often just takes an "autoreconf -fvi" to upgrade it from the libtool 1.5.1-made-5-years-ago that they packaged their tarball with. As much as I hate the autotools, they're better than the many roll-your-own monstrocities I've seen which *don't* use them. - -- Benjamin Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick Fink, KDE, and Mac OS X development http://www.racoonfink.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHOn5+Uu+jZtP2Zf4RArOKAJ0Qtfu3UkXoe43ZWZodCRs0oUpyfACgoL6s AeceEl7ziWUiuasPhMuOVbw= =f9Jb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
