[companion-discuss] Re: Re: Collaborative porting encyclopedia experiment

[Alan Coopersmith]

Bob Palowoda wrote:
>  Remember I said "the gates of hell" and you brought up
> libtool.  

libtool is it's own circle of hell, populated by demons whose
names all end in ".la".

>  Is libtool used for the 
> OpenSolaris build process and worth an entry in the
> Collaborative porting encyclopedia experiment?   Or
> is libtool only important to the Companion CD and build
> tools not to Solaris developers in general, not worth 
> mentioning until it becomes stable on the Solaris platform.

libtool is used in building all the X11R7.x libraries now,
so working around its various forms of brain damage is becoming
a central part of the X consolidation build processes.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering