On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 15:54, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="henry"> > > > Could you tell me what they(*.la , *.lo) are ? > > .la: libtool archive files, they store metadata about libraries (library > dependency info and stuff like that) so libtool can work a bit faster and > smarter. [1]
Libtool is about portability, automake is about 'easy'. Software should be portable across platforms without killing the porter, libtool helps hide the screwed up Unix environments out there. Reading the manual, it works for my major systems, AIX, Solaris, Linux and Windows. I hope to reduce / eliminate some of the portability maintenance that I currently have to do. KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
