* Howard Chu wrote on Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 08:36:00AM CEST: > * Patrick Pélissier wrote on Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 03:03:32PM CET: > > How to configure libtool so that it doesn't run C++ / Fortran tests if > > the library is a C library, and so doesn't need a C++ / fortran > > compiler? The project uses the other autotools and is a C library. I > > haven't found this in the documentation. > > Sorry for dredging up an old question, but recently I was looking for > the same answer myself. This will probably make the libtool maintainers > cringe, but I've added this to our configure.in (using libtool 1.5.18) > to disable the extraneous language tests. (Put this somewhere before the > AC_PROG_LIBTOOL invocation.)
Sure. > dnl Disable libtool 1.5 support for languages we don't use > define([AC_LIBTOOL_LANG_CXX_CONFIG], [:])dnl > define([AC_LIBTOOL_LANG_F77_CONFIG], [:])dnl > define([AC_LIBTOOL_LANG_GCJ_CONFIG], [:])dnl > > It shaves 12000 lines from our configure script and completes faster as > well (which is a real godsend on some of the ultra slow dev systems we > port to). Sure. It should serve as a good workaround. Libtool 2.0 has this fixed, as already mentioned before. I do not intend to backport the fix (which doesn't require the user to change libtool.m4 resp. aclocal.m4) because it is a bit involved. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
