[OpenAFS-devel] silly question

[Derrick J Brashear]

On 8 Jul 2002, Derek Atkins wrote:

> libtool is a crock of %$!& and building shared libraries across
> platforms is a HARD problem.  If the OpenAFS tree ever actually
> builds shared libraries I will happily distribute them...

Well, we have a fixed number of platforms, so it's a less hard problem
than if we supported every weird platform out there, but yes, it's a hard
problem even with autoconf+libtool because libtool doesn't always play
nicely with other children. There are other more pressing development
issues.

> -derek
>
> Charles Clancy <security@xauth.net> writes:
>
> > Question to developers: any plans to distribute shared libraries too?  I
> > remember asking a while back before things were autoconfed, and people
> > seemed to think it was too annoying.  How about now?