Re: Use libtldl but do not package it (was: libtool --mode=execute regressions)

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> No no, misunderstanding here:
>
> Suppose I am writing some software package S.  It makes use of libltdl.
> I do not want to ship the libltdl sources with it.  Rather, I want to
> require the users of S to separately install libltdl on their system
> (given software distributions with decent package dependency handling,
> this might not be such a bad thing to do).  Does Libtool support this?

In this case it seems to me that libltdl is just a normal library like 
other installed libraries libtool is used to link against.  The 
dependent application/library simply needs to list it as a dependency. 
What am I missing?

Bob
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