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automake vs. GNU make
automake vs. GNU make
Posted Feb 8, 2008 0:44 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: automake vs. GNU make by aleXXX
Parent article: LCA: Disintermediating distributions
automake can't generate the commands libtool executes because automake runs on the distributor's machine, not the builder's, and doesn't have a clue what sort of system the build will take place on.
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automake vs. GNU make
Posted Feb 8, 2008 7:20 UTC (Fri) by aleXXX (subscriber, #2742) [Link]
Ah, yes, indeed. (I didn't work with autotools in the last years). Then, couldn't the configure script handle that ? It runs on the build machine. Alex
automake vs. GNU make
Posted Feb 8, 2008 21:28 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Yes, it could: but in libtool 1.5 it doesn't :( I never said libtool didn't suck. It's just better than anything else around right now for the job it does, and it has a *lot* of hard-won knowledge of shared library wierdness on manifold systems encoded into it (as autoconf does of other cross-system variation).