Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
Google doesn't show even nearly enough hits when you search for libtool
sucks.
Because it's an understatement. :-)
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On Sat, 25 Jun 2005, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
Despite the apparent consensus that it should be integrated in
Autoconf, the integration never materialized. When I queried about
this in 2003 (http://tinyurl.com/a63lc), the single response
charmingly told me that the solution is libtool. I now
Maciej W. Rozycki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Bugs are of course inevitable and you shouldn't be surprised seeing
them especially as on exotic platforms (you even admit you've never
been able to reproduce some of the other's problems on your
systems).
Please note that a platform doesn't
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
Bugs are of course inevitable and you shouldn't be surprised seeing
them especially as on exotic platforms (you even admit you've never
been able to reproduce some of the other's problems on your
systems).
Please note that a platform doesn't
8:01 AM
To: Hrvoje Niksic
Cc: wget@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: No more Libtool (long)
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Everyone else please either file bug reports (or better yet fix bugs you
trip over) or keep silent.
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Post, Mark K wrote:
This is the kind of obnoxious commentary I've learned to expect from
glibc's maintainers. It's no more becoming from you (or anyone else).
Well, but unlike with glibc, maintainers of libtool do actually handle
problems reported by users. But they
Libtool (long)
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Let's focus on technical issues rather than making it personal, OK?
Maciej
-Original Message-
From: Hrvoje Niksic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 8:11 PM
To: wget@sunsite.dk
Subject: No more Libtool (long)
Thanks to the effort of Mauro Tortonesi and the prior work of Bruno
Haible, Wget has been modified to no longer use Libtool for linking
Post, Mark K [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I read the entire message, but I probably didn't have to. My
experience with libtool in packages that really are building
libraries has been pretty painful. Since wget doesn't build any,
getting rid of it is one less thing to kill my builds in the
Thanks to the effort of Mauro Tortonesi and the prior work of Bruno
Haible, Wget has been modified to no longer use Libtool for linking in
external libraries. If you are interested in why that might be a
cause for celebration, read on.
A bit of history: Libtool was integrated in Wget by Dan
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