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automake vs. GNU make

automake vs. GNU make

Posted Feb 8, 2008 7:19 UTC (Fri) by aleXXX (subscriber, #2742)
In reply to: automake vs. GNU make by lovelace
Parent article: LCA: Disintermediating distributions

libtool on the Mac (a native binary for dealing with libraries on the 
Mac) is something different than the autotools libtool (portable shell 
script which should deal with shared libs on all systems).

Alex


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automake vs. GNU make

Posted Feb 8, 2008 16:05 UTC (Fri) by lovelace (guest, #278) [Link]

Hi Alex!

Yep, I'm aware of that, but that's not what I was referring to.  I was referring to the
autotools libtool.  Unfortunately, like I said, that was about 5 years ago and I cannot
remember the specifics.  So, rather than make more unsubstantiated accusations, I'll just
leave it at that.  I will mention, though, that that episode in particular cemented my general
dislike of the autotools libtool that still stands to this day.

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