On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 07:04:37PM +0100, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> Simple shared library support (tested _only_ on Linux). I wanted to
> add libtool and automake support but as itojun said automake is unportable.
>
> ps. It's really so unportable ?
Automake *itself* isn't unportable, as far as I know.
However, the Makefile.in files it generates, at least when you're a
developer working from the CVS tree rather than somebody who downloads a
source distribution, apparently use GNU Make-specific features (or, at
least, features not supported by BSD make :-(, such as the "include"
directive - alas, BSD make didn't pick up that particular System V-ism,
whilst GNU make did), which obliges developers to install GNU Make.
(Ages and ages ago, the fact that BSD make didn't support "include" -
yes. I know about ".include", but that extra "." makes all the
compatibility difference - irritated me enough that I cooked up a patch
to support it; I no longer have it, but perhaps I should try to
reconstruct it and see if I can get the BSDs to pick it up, in the name
of compatibility with the rest of the universe.)
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