[OpenAFS-devel] Why I like libtool

[Robert Banz]

Jim Rees wrote:
> If I agree to allow libtool into the tree, will you be willing to fix it
> when it breaks on Open, Net, and FreeBSD?
> 
> Is there any way to at least un-hide the .lib directory?
> 
> Also, I don't remember getting an answer to the licensing question.

I never have anything but nightmarish problems building things with 
libtool.  I have never quite understood it's "existance", as the things 
taht it does are just as well done with flags to 'ld' and such in a 
standard Makefile.  Ok, maybe I don't know what I'm talking about. 
Maybe I'm just pining for the "good old days."

* Who here has tried to do a 'make install prefix=' with a 
libtool-enabled application and had it complain that you couldn't, 
because libtook wouldn't allow the shared library to be installed for 
where it wasn't "built" for?

* Who here has been frustrated with that ".libs" directory, and the 
silly shell wrappper "programs" it puts in place of where your 
executables should be in your build tree?

Down with libtool...

-rob