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Re: TODO
From: |
Bob Friesenhahn |
Subject: |
Re: TODO |
Date: |
Sat, 13 Nov 2004 17:34:46 -0600 (CST) |
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Jacob Meuser wrote:
libtool is used to build libraries.
pkg-config is used in configure scripts.
libtool is used in Makefiles.
yes, it's possible to use constructs like
foo.so: foo.o
${CC} ${LDFLAGS} -o foo.so foo.o `pkg-config bar --libs`
in Makefiles, but this is not overlap in a conflicting way. libtool
isn't even being used there. and if CC is libtool, then if it cannot
handle that command, then, well, libtool is the abberation, because
then it's not doing what it is supposed to do. libtool is supposed to
make building libraries/shared objects easier.
Libtool makes building libraries more portable.
now, could you please tell me where pkg-config conflicts with libtool,
or why pkg-config is an "aberration", or why the libtool codebase
should be bloated to provide functionality already provided by
another commonly use package?
The "simple tool" approach which has helped Unix succeed should be
followed. As you say pkg-config is already easy to use in configure
scripts. It can continue to be used in configure scripts. Libtool
can continue to be a compiler/linker driver. There is no need to fix
something which is not broken and tie tools together when they don't
need to be.
Bob
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- Re: TODO, (continued)
- Re: TODO, Albert Chin, 2004/11/11
- Re: TODO, Gary V. Vaughan, 2004/11/12
- Re: TODO, Albert Chin, 2004/11/12
- Re: TODO, Bob Friesenhahn, 2004/11/12
- Re: TODO, Jacob Meuser, 2004/11/12
- Re: TODO, Ralf Corsepius, 2004/11/12
- Re: TODO, Jacob Meuser, 2004/11/13
- Re: TODO, Ralf Corsepius, 2004/11/13
- Re: TODO, Bob Friesenhahn, 2004/11/13
- Re: TODO, Jacob Meuser, 2004/11/13
- Re: TODO,
Bob Friesenhahn <=
- Re: TODO, Scott James Remnant, 2004/11/14
- Re: TODO, Albert Chin, 2004/11/14
- Re: TODO, Bob Friesenhahn, 2004/11/14
- Re: TODO, Scott James Remnant, 2004/11/15
- Re: TODO, Gary V. Vaughan, 2004/11/14
- Re: TODO, Bob Friesenhahn, 2004/11/14
- Re: TODO, Gary V. Vaughan, 2004/11/14
- Re: TODO, Patrick Welche, 2004/11/14
- Re: TODO, Bob Friesenhahn, 2004/11/14
- Re: TODO, Jacob Meuser, 2004/11/14