things that scare me

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From: Godmar Back (gback@cs.utah.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 14 1999 - 23:37:55 EST


>From libtool's TODO file:

    Things to think about:
    **********************

    * Talk with RMS about his so-called `automatic package generation
    tool.' This is probably what Thomas has been murmuring about for the
    Hurd. We'll need to integrate package-supplied programs such as
    libtool into that scheme, since it manages some of the preinstall and
    postinstall commands, but isn't installed itself. Probably, things
    like libtool should be distributed as part of such a binary package.

This sounds like another attempt of trying to invent things where others
have long succeeded. The other prime example is Linux and the Hurd.

In other news, I learned from the TODO file that libtool does not implement
"full multi-language support." Will that mean we won't be able to invoke
gcj to create shared objects for the class library once the time comes?

        - Godmar


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