[OpenAFS-devel] Why I like libtool

[Kyle Moffett]

On May 13, 2005, at 12:40:42, Russ Allbery wrote:
> The way it works is like this:
>
>  * The part of libtool that you include in your project, provided that
>    you don't need its loadable module support, is an Autoconf macro  
> that
>    goes into aclocal.m4 or whatever, just like any other, and a giant
>    shell script that needs some Autoconf substitutions that's called
>    ltmain.sh.  Both of these are covered under the Autoconf  
> license, which
>    means you can include them in your package under your existing
>    distribution terms with no licensing problems.

There's a tool called libtoolize that basically does this for you,  
updating
ltmain.sh (aclocal.m4 too?) from the currently installed libtool.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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