>>>>> "BS" == Bruce Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BS> One of the Open Solaris mailing lists (sfwnv-discuss) just had a flame BS> war about libtool. It appears its use is deprecated for a number of BS> reasons I didn't necessarily follow. Cause it is a pain in the neck to deal with, that's why. It solves a lot of problems and creates a bunch more. BS> Given that it appears we're stuck with it for the moment (I believe BS> autoconf needs it) I'd want to have the most up-do-date version. Actually, no. autoconf and libtool are independent. libtool helps simplify the creation of shared libraries in a platform independent way. At the cost of a number of oddities. There are vendors that try to be more backwards compatible than we do, and I hear from them all the time that their users complain about our .so suffix numbers jumping upward because it breaks older application builds. (and no, they don't want to rebuild as their applications aren't likely to be affected by new things). Sigh. Really, I hate to say it, we should be using different libtool versions per library. We took half a step there going to real libtool versioning a while back. It's probably wise to jump the full way. That'll only solve some of the problems though. When the oldest structures known to the project haven't changed, then an application certainly won't be affected by a struct update to something new and fancy that they're not using. not that I'm bitter about how shared libraries work. -- Wes Hardaker Sparta, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders
