From: Alexandre Oliva (oliva@dcc.unicamp.br)
Date: Tue Nov 10 1998 - 18:29:30 EST
On Nov 10, 1998, Tim Wilkinson <tim@transvirtual.com> wrote:
> Now if we want to use libtool I'd like it to be used only where it's
> present, and if not for things to still work (is this asking too
> much?).
Although I'm one of the maintainers of libtool, I've been maintaining
a --disable-libtool in Amanda (www.amanda.org) as an emergency
work-around. I don't think anyone has ever needed it, because libtool
creates only static libraries in platforms it doesn't know about.
> As for automake, what exactly does this buy us (it's been a *long* time since
> I looked at automake)?
Simpler Makefiles, direct interfacing with libtool, conditional parts
of Makefiles enabled/disabled at configure-time, automatic transparent
dependency tracking (requires GNU make and gcc) and inclusion of
dependencies in Makefiles for distribution (make dist), lots of
standard rules for Makefiles (make install), automatic regeneration of
out-of-date Makefiles and configure-related files, this is just some
garbage to check whether you got to this point :-), Makefile
portability, etc
--
Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva aoliva@{acm.org}
oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.anu.edu.au}
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil
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