On Jul 19, 2000, "Frank Ch. Eigler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi -
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 07:10:13PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> [...]
>> > libtool: link: cannot build libtool library `libfoo.la' from non-libtool
>> > objects: /usr/local/lib/libbar.a
>>
>> Libtool is right. It can't be done portably, so libtool won't do it
>> for you.
> libtool would be more useful if it were not so indignant in
> the face of non-portable functionality.
If it weren't, developers that use only on GNU/Linux might not realize
they're relying on features that are only available on a few
platforms, and turn to us when users ask them why their package won't
build on other platforms.
Of course, we might support a switch such as --non-portable or --lax,
so that libtool might attempt to use non-portable features, but I
think none of the current maintainers have time to implement that (but
I speak only for myself), so it would have to be an external
contribution.
--
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