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Re: some general help needed
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Richard Ash |
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Re: some general help needed |
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Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:49:09 +0100 |
On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 10:52 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> This sounds like you're using it wrongly. Linking against an
> uninstalled copy of a library is one of libtool's strengths,
> and I know very few open bugs about it, so if you know a use
> case that doesn't work, I ask you to please report it to the
> bug-libtool list.
Don't get me wrong, using libtool to link against an uninstalled copy of
a libtool library is fine. The problem is when libfoo uses libtool, and
then I want to modify my autoconf-only package (which I can't convert to
automake/libtool because it is a collaborative project, and Makefile.in
is distinctly custom) to link against the uninstalled copy of libfoo.
Because I'm not using libtool .la files are more or less unusable, so I
have to go poking around to see where .a files might have been put, and
code those paths in to my configure script. When libfoo upgrades, I have
a strong chance of breakage. As one document put it, if you are trying
to link against the output of libool without using libtool, you are
rather on your own.
Richard
- some general help needed, Matej Tyc, 2008/08/15
- Re: some general help needed, Ralf Wildenhues, 2008/08/16
- Re: some general help needed, Matej Tyc, 2008/08/17
- mailing list behavior [was: some general help needed], Eric Blake, 2008/08/17
- Re: mailing list behavior [was: some general help needed], Matej Tyc, 2008/08/29
- Re: mailing list behavior [was: some general help needed], Bob Proulx, 2008/08/29
- Re: mailing list behavior, Peter O'Gorman, 2008/08/29
- Re: mailing list behavior, Bob Proulx, 2008/08/29
- Re: mailing list behavior, Matej Tyc, 2008/08/29
- Re: mailing list behavior [was: some general help needed], Eric Blake, 2008/08/30